[Scribus] CMS dialog

[Craig Bradney]

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
> 
> 
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