[Scribus] Predefined colours

[David Christian Berg]

On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 02:22 +0200, Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
> The text engine is under heavy development. Expect many issues to be solved 
> after the release of 1.3.6.

Sounds great! You could also make me a little happy by just using single
pixel lines to frame text boxes when they don't have a outline. same
goes for the bleed line... why is it getting thicker on zoom??? Same
goes for guides. Only the margins get this right. they are always 1 px
in width... (or at least so it seems to me)


> > 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.

Now, that was easy :-D Thanks!
I had been looking for it in the preference dialogue.

> 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.

Sorry, I'm on the list, but I don't follow it anymore, really. What is
the resource manager? I'll check tomorrow, I guess. it's late in Germany
right now, as you know and I'm also studying currently for my exam on
Monday.

> >
> > 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 ;)

Sounds like the most-important stuff should already be in in 1.3.6
I'll check how fast text editing is. It says it was slow for large
texts, but I find it unresponsive already with basically no text.
I'm specifically referring to selecting text. It's actually horribly
slow and unresponsive...

> HTH
??

Thanks again for the answer!

Take care!

David