May 2025

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a.l.e

Last week, a few us attended the Libre Graphics Meeting.

In the forums there is a short report about our achievements there.

As a bonus, you now get the group photo: try to guess who are the four Scribus developers!

lgm-group-photo-2025.jpg

The Scribus code also improved: On top of many bug fixes, we also got:

  • Three changes to the Scripter:
    • 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, it is now possible to enable and disable multiple fonts at once.
    font-activate-context-menu-patch.gif
  • The .sla file format has seen some clean up, to make it more readable to humans
  • The rotation of items now access negative values (Scribus will use and display 360 minus the value entered)

a.l.e

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It already happened in June:

  • ...

Open tickets with pending patches:


Tickets with "simple" tasks:

Scripts to be created

AdmFubar

Would like to see one other small teak made to the preferences panel. Can the left column of list be sorted alphabetically? Would make finding the desired options easier.
Using Scribus 1.5.8 & 1.6.3, 1.7.0 openSUSE 15.5
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a.l.e

mmm...

i'm not sure that having them in alphabetic order is a good idea.

but a better order and some separators might help.

and, at some time, we will probably need a search system...
there are too many options in there and it's often hard to find them.