Hi Kai-Uwe What version are you using? There was a fix recently with regards to CMS directories, which was about the last fix before 1.1.3. was released.
Craig On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 09:49, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote: > Hi, > my name is Kai-Uwe Behrmann from Chemnitz/Germany. I work as free > programmer and photograph panoramas on medium format film. > > The scribus application has an promizing CMS. In order to test it and to > get a look and feel of its behaviour I liked to go in the CMS dialog. > Therefore I created an directory containing Display-/Output-and Color > Space profiles and set the icc-profile directory to the same. > I know them all working with lcms. Anyway no dialog. > I helped scribus with CMSavail = true; but that seems not the intented > way. > After opening an document scribus complains about: > lcms: Error #12288; File > '/$prefix$/lib/scribus/profiles/Display.icc' not found. > This is the profile I selected for displaying. Only I have it in the ICC > directory not the "standard" path as above. Scribus exits with the above > message. Exchanging this well known profile. Now I see the dialog. > Now opening an document: crash, profile not found. > Once installed with root privilegs I use root access again and link > profiles to /$prefix$/lib/scribus/profiles/ . > > Huu it works, finaly. > > So it is after some fiddeling possible to get it working, here comes my > thought about this behaviour/(bug?): > Why do not show the dialog anyway, no matter if there are profiles or not? > Usually I make things working step by step. If I could at least see no > entrys in the selector I would know there are no display profiles for > instance. The current behaviour shows me two pitfall, all I jumped in, I > see no CMS dialog till I have all needed profiles at once and I selected > the right path but scribus dont really likes this. > ... and I found no hint in an readme - the one in > /$prefix$/lib/scribus/profiles/ I found after all this. > > Fine it works and shows me options I was never aware of before, wow :-) > > Now comes my question to the look and feel, the reason I initially signed > in to this list. > Why do scribus use these kind of lists for profile selecting? Where comes > it from? I have seen this dialog designas well in Karl-Heinz Kraemers > colour-manager plug-in for gimp. > > Next: > You show one profile selection for Images and one for Colours, what are > they intented for? (Hope, I dont repeat former asked questions.) > > kind regards > Kai-Uwe > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
