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Development => Features => Topic started by: a.l.e on November 06, 2025, 09:45:46 AM

Title: Some interesting features from a dead Layout software
Post by: a.l.e on November 06, 2025, 09:45:46 AM
A couple of weeks, a user that is also active in this forum, asked on Reddit about letting Scribus automatically detecting the contour of an image.
(Edit: Ok, I checked and they asked here too; but the discussion went a bit further on Reddit... https://forums.scribus.net/index.php/topic,6512)

Interesting challenge: I'm working on a Python script that should be able to do it!
The work is progressing slowly but nicely.

This morning, I was curious about the reference they gave for the feature: PagePlus.

It's a software that has been discontinued ten years ago and is / was Windows only (probably the main reason why it never showed up on my radar...).

I was curious to see what it looked like and during my exploration trip, I've found a few features that could be interesting for Scribus, too (and might not require huge changes to Scribus):


What do you think about it?

There are few low hanging fruits, if somebody who knows a bit of C++ wants to give it a try, just raise your hand : - )