[Scribus] Predefined colours

[Christoph Schäfer]

Am Freitag, 24. August 2007 01:59 schrieb David Christian Berg:
> Hey guys!
>
> While I think Scribus is heading the right direction and I really love
> the SVG import feature and the great PDF export, it is very unresponsive
> in text editing for me, which is why I hardly use it.

The text engine is under heavy development. Expect many issues to be solved 
after the release of 1.3.6.

> However, when I do use it, I really get annoyed by all the predefined
> colours.
> So firstly I want to ask if there is some way of taking them out for all
> new documents.

You have some opportunities here. If you have a document open, you can always 
remove all unused colours in the colour dialog. If you don't have any 
document open, just specify another (smaller) colour set as your default.

See also:

http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=6122

http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=6107

> Secondly I would suggest to make that the default and instead of having
> a bunch of in my opinion useless colours (projects usually have
> corporate colours anyways) making it easier to add a new colour, by
> placing a "new" button in the colour choosing section of the properties
> dialogue.

Please check the bugtracker. There might already be an RFE, and with the 
planned resource manager, this request might become obsolete.

>
> Keep up the good work!
>
> I hope to abandon Adobe InDesign with Scribus 1.5 :D

I hope you won't, since 1.5 will be a developer version. Better check 
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/1.3.x_Roadmap and 
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/1.3.x_Roadmap_Extras for what you can 
expect from 1.4 ;)

HTH

Christoph