> On 11 Apr 2017, at 00:18, scrib at wexfordpress.com wrote: > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > From: "Craig Bradney" <cbradney at scribus.info> > Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 4:57 PM > To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net> > Subject: Re: [scribus] Bad news/good news >> A question: why must one always manually set color management on? Why not >> make that the default? > I cannot think of a situation where I would not >> want it on. Fussy details > like this can frustrate newbies. > > Not everyone wants it on. Most people (who don't know how to use it) will > make their print jobs worse by using incorrect profiles. > > Craig ___ > > The default profiles seem to work ok. More to the point:: without color > management one can't get the X1a:2001 pdf type that most > printers seem to prefer.
Most printers in your area.. not everywhere. > > Two other default annoyances : the default font is Ari and the default > language is Africaans. Surely there are better choices? > The default font depends on the system and what it has installed. This the order: "Arial Regular"; "Times New Roman Regular"; "Helvetica Regular"; "Helvetica Neue Regular"; "DejaVu Sans Book"; "DejaVu Sans Condensed"; "Open Sans Regular"; "Liberation Sans Regular"; Then alphabetical. I can check the default language side though. > My workaround for my (future) book customers is to create a dummy file > called setup.sla that they can load which has the defaults changed to > reasonable values. Then they can reset the book cover dimensions and guides > for their particular book using the python file I wrote. > Thats one option Craig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20170411/fa48abb4/attachment.html>
