[scribus] Bad news/good news

Craig Bradney cbradney at scribus.info
Mon Apr 10 20:57:01 UTC 2017


> On 10 Apr 2017, at 22:50, scrib at wexfordpress.com wrote:
> 
> My attempt to post a gzipped tarball of latest svn  on my website failed. 
> When I downloaded the file to another partition I unzipped
> and untarred it but could not make it work…
> 

This is not at all surprising. The system needs to be in the same state of package version, etc etc. This practice is really discouraged. AppImages work very differently.


> The good news; after two svn revisions that didn't work for me the latest  
> revision 21854 seems to work OK.
> 
> 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




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