Keyboard Shortcuts by Key

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1 Function Keys

2 Control, Shift, Alt Keys

3 Normal Keys Shortcuts

4 Powerful keyboard modifiers actions

4.1 Quite standard for Linux applications

4.2 Specific to Scribus

5 TODO

Function Keys
Function
Show Help Manual
Toggle Properties Palette
Toggle Style Editor dialog

Toggle Layers Palette

Toggle All Guides

Toggle All palettes

Shortcut
F1
F2
F3
F4
F5
F6
F7
F8
F9
F11
F12

Control, Shift, Alt Keys

Function
Select All
Deselect All
Copy
Get Text or Image
Item Duplicate
Search and Replace
Lock Item
Lock Item Size
Group Items
Document Information
Delete Item
New File
Open File
Print
Quit
Save
Save As
Ungroup Item

Shortcut
Control-A
Control-Shift-A
Control-C
Control-D
Control-Alt-Shift-D
Control-F
Control-L
Control-Shift-L
Control-G
Control-I
Control-K
Control-N
Control-O
Control-P
Control-Q
Control-S
Control-Shift-S
Control-Shift-G

Paste
Close File
Cut
Edit with Story Editor
Undo
Redo
Select All
DeSelect All
Zoom to fit
Zoom to 100%
Zoom In
Zoom Out
Zoom In/Out
Smart Hyphen
Non Breaking Space
Insert Page Number
Raise
Lower
Raise to top
Lower to bottom
Frame Break
Column Break
Stacked Objects, next in Z-order
Resizing object when other object on top
Resize proportionally
Move image in image frame without entering frame edit mode
Move frame/group with X/Y constrained
Rotate a line or when creating a line, constrain the angle of rotation
Rotate an existing item on the page other than a line and constrain the angle of rotation
Resize to a square
New Line
Scale text
Scale text proportionally
Move item 1 unit (current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)
Move item 0.1 units (current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)
Move item 10 units (current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)
Move item 0.01 units (current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)
Resize item 1 unit outwards (current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)
Resize item 1 unit inwards(current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)
Move to start of paragraph in text edit mode on canvas
Move to end of paragraph in text edit mode on canvas
Move to start of frame in text edit mode on canvas
Move to end of frame in text edit mode on canvas
Resize image while in image frame edit mode on canvas

Normal Keys Shortcuts

Function
A
B
C

Shortcut
Insert Table Frame
Insert Bezier Curve
Select (Temporary until the rest are sorted out)

Control-V
Control-W
Control-X
Control-Y
Control-Z
Control-Shift-Z
Control-A
Control-Shift-A
Control-0
Control-1
Control-Plus
Control-Minus
Control-Mousewheel
Control-Shift-Minus
Control-Space
Control-Alt-Shift-P
Control-Home
Control-End
Home
End
Control-Return
Control-Shift-Return
Control-Shift-LMouse
Control-drag
Control-drag
Control-Alt-drag
Control-drag
Control-drag and rotate
Control-drag and rotate
Shift-drag
Shift-Return
Alt-Shift-drag
Alt-Control-drag
Arrow keys
Shift+Arrow keys
Control+Arrow keys
Control+Shift+Arrow keys
Alt+Arrow keys
Shift+Alt+Arrow keys
Control Up Arrow
Control Down Arrow
Control Page Up
Control Page Down
Alt+Arrow keys

E
F
I
N
L
P
R
S
T
U
Z

Edit Contents (text in a text frame, or image location in an image frame)

Insert Freehand Line
Insert Image Frame
Link Text Frame
Insert Line
Insert Polygon
Rotate
Insert Shape
Insert Text Frame
Unlink Text Frame
Zoom

Powerful keyboard modifiers actions

Quite standard for Linux applications

CTRL + MOUSEWHEEL UP or DOWN enables to quickly zoom in or

out

CTRL + MOUSEDRAG on the canvas enables to move the current

viewport

Specific to Scribus

When in Text edit mode : 1) DOUCLE CLICK on a letter part of a word

will select the whole word. 2) CTRL+DOUBLE CLICK will select the
whole paragraph

In the style edition dialog, when selecting a font, a very long menu has
to be scrolled through all installed fonts. CTRL + MOUSEWHEEL
enables to scroll one whole screen down or up.

When in Image Editing mode (double click on an image frame first),

SHIFT + MOUSEDRAG enables to rotate the image

Not a keyboard modifier but worth noting : the measure inputs in the
Property Palette accept mathematical operations (Example : 132+48
for width, or 43+180 for rotation, or even (2*3)+1 for height)

This article needs to be cleaned up. Please update the information,

remove factual errors, refresh category data, or correct the hyperlinks.

TODO

Clean up this page

Implement as a plugin https://github.com/cpyxis/Scribus-InDesignKeys

Create a useful ShortCutMapper for

Scribus: http://waldobronchart.github.io/ShortcutMapper/ (How to add
shortcuts for a new Application)

Relate Keyboard_shortcuts as well

Good momentum for this with the latest commits for pg-up/down button
(http://scribus.net/websvn/revision.php?repname=Scribus&path=%2F&isdir=1&rev=19178) and adding
standard OS X shortcut keys
(http://scribus.net/websvn/revision.php?repname=Scribus&path=%2F&isdir=1&rev=19180)
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