On Thursday 21 April 2005 19:00, Steve deRosier wrote: > PLinnell wrote: > > On Thursday 21 April 2005 16:24, Asif Lodhi wrote: > > ...sniped... > > > You are more than likely missing cmyk profiles. Those listed are > > a mixture of generic and special profiles included with littlecms > > > > There are links for CMYK profiles on the wiki, www.scribus.net > > and on docs.scribus.net. We cannot ship them because of > > licensing. > > > > These are the generic Adobe print profiles and installing them > > correctly will enable color management. > > This seems a very common problem (I ran into it to when I started > with Scribus). I think the real problem is a usablity problem that > stems from Scribus silently disabling the Color management menu > item if you don't have at least one each of the RGB and CYMK > profiles installed. It makes it look like the color management is > just disabled/broken without any input to the user of why. > > My sugestion, since we can't include the profiles due to license > issues. If cms is enabled (ie support is compiled in) don't > disable the menu item. If it can't find the profiles, when the > user clicks on it give a message box (sample text, don't nit-pick > please): ! "Can't find profiles. To enable CMS support, please > install icc profiles in /usr/local/scribus/profiles. Please see > the wiki for further instructions." > > Now the user knows: > 1. CMS support is installed and should work. > 2. Exactly what is wrong. > 3. Where to look for more help if they need it. > > If CMS support isn't complied in, don't even show the menu item > (maybe it does that...I always enable it). > >
We are a step ahead of you :-) It is now fixed in 1.2.2cvs. See : http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1534 This also fixes the "Why is PDF/X-3 tab disabled?" question. > Even better, we might want to construct our own profiles that we > can ship (easier said then done?) and automatically install so that > things just work. > The problem is finding a meaningful CMYK profile which we can ship. > - Steve > _______________________________________________ Peter
