In March a few things happened in the Scribus world:
- The node editing UI has been greatly improved and simplified:
node-editing.png - CSS is better supported in imported SVG files
- The shortcuts for the palettes (F2, F3, ...) bring the "background ones to the foreground, instead of closing them
- In the February we had the support for pasting formatted text, now there is also the option to paste plain text from applications where the default is to paste formatted text
- The generation of "nightly" Appimages on Gitlab works again: https://gitlab.com/scribus/scribus/-/jobs/artifacts/master/raw/Scribus-nightly-x86_64.AppImage?job=appimage%3Alinux
- Choice of dark or light theme on top of the auto detection (and other further improvements to the detection of dark themes)
- Avoid custom font encodings when embedding TTF fonts in PDF: https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17436
This should avoid some "random" errors with online print shops.
It already happened in April:
- A script that fixes the Hairline width: https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=9054
- Hyphenation exceptions and ignore lists: allow to add and remove multiple entries at once
Open tickets with pending patches:
- Deactivate multiple fonts at once (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=14810)
- Automatic detection of page size format (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17476)
- Scripter: GetItem(name) should look inside of groups (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17490)
- Hyphenation exceptions and ignore lists: allow to add and remove multiple entries at once (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17497)
- Export to PDF/X-1a:2003 (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17422)
- Freehand tool: always smooth the line (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=12438)x
- Picture frame padding (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1096)
- apply style "shortcuts" based on the "action search" tool (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17162)
- Export selection to SVG (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17438)
- Change from Conical gradient to mesh Gradient generate new color names (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17332)
- Limit the width of the tooltips (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17438)
- 'snap to guides' should be enabled by default (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=14956)
- scripter: add the itemDialog() api function (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17051)
- Add a few US page sizes (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17115)
- disabling hyphenation for word by inserting softhyphen before it (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=10517)
- it should not be possible to insert multiple soft hyphens one after the other (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=15600)
- Scripter: add "Unlink Text Frames and Cut Text" (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=16784)
- Search & replace all text frames (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=14567)
- scripter: make sure that one can choose the page of the pdf loaded into an image frame (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=10970)
This patch is deprecated and no longer compatible since we added the new page sizes to the New Document dialog.
https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17115