In April we have seen several fixes for specific annoyances, but only few and (small) improvements that deserve to be singled out:
- Addressing some of the lost of content, when importing from LibreOffice Writer (ODT) documents
- 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
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It already happened in May:
- A few new Scripter commands:
- Setting the page of a PDF loaded in an image frame: getImagePage(), getImagePageCount(), setImagePage()
- Add a "cut_text" argument to unlinkTextFrames()
- Add itemDialog() with a simple dialog with a dropdown / combobox
- In the preferences, make it possible to enable and disable multiple fonts at once.
Open tickets with pending patches:
- Accept negative values for the rotation in the properties palette (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17529)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Search & replace all text frames (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=14567)
- WIP PATCH: Import pages with linked text frames breaks the links (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=8056)
- Warn when a hyphenation dictionary is missing (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=15584)
- Image compression in PDF (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=2277)
- : Support automatic line spacing in gettext plugins (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1063)
Tickets with "simple" tasks:
- duplicate on layer (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=3556)
- A way to manage stylesheets when inserting a page from another document (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1710)
- Implicit right tab on right hand margin (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=2709)
- svg plug-in doesn't import text as (editable) text (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=9841)
- Expand item to the next guide (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17525)
- Add an option to export a PDF file containing all data relevant for production (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=3951)
- shift-drag to create items fitting multiple areas (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17526)
- PDF export directory presets (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=12219)
- Select all frames in a chain (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1815)
- button to convert column and rows guides to "real" guides (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=10114)
- selecting multiple items at once should happen in ltr/rtl order (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17385)
- Add an option to list used fonts first (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=8435) (also see the related tickets)
Scripts to be created
- Split frame by paragraphs (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=8635)
- Split the frame in columns (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=8276)