<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Apr 2017, at 00:18, <a href="mailto:scrib@wexfordpress.com" class="">scrib@wexfordpress.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">----------------------------------------<br class=""> From: "Craig Bradney" <<a href="mailto:cbradney@scribus.info" class="">cbradney@scribus.info</a>><br class="">Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 4:57 PM<br class="">To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:scribus@lists.scribus.net" class="">scribus@lists.scribus.net</a>><br class="">Subject: Re: [scribus] Bad news/good news<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">A question: why must one always manually set color management on? Why not<br class="">make that the default? > I cannot think of a situation where I would not want it on. Fussy details > like this can frustrate newbies.<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""> 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.<br class=""><br class=""> Craig ___<br class=""><br class=""> 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<br class=""> printers seem to prefer.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Most printers in your area.. not everywhere.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""> Two other default annoyances : the default font is Ari and the default language is Africaans. Surely there are better choices?<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>The default font depends on the system and what it has installed. </div><div>This the order:</div><div>
<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">"Arial</span><span style=" color:#c0c0c0;" class=""> </span><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">Regular"</span>;</pre>
<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">"Times</span><span style=" color:#c0c0c0;" class=""> </span><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">New</span><span style=" color:#c0c0c0;" class=""> </span><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">Roman</span><span style=" color:#c0c0c0;" class=""> </span><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">Regular"</span>;</pre>
<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">"Helvetica</span><span style=" color:#c0c0c0;" class=""> </span><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">Regular"</span>;</pre>
<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">"Helvetica</span><span style=" color:#c0c0c0;" class=""> </span><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">Neue</span><span style=" color:#c0c0c0;" class=""> </span><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">Regular"</span>;</pre>
<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">"DejaVu</span><span style=" color:#c0c0c0;" class=""> </span><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">Sans</span><span style=" color:#c0c0c0;" class=""> </span><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">Book"</span>;</pre>
<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">"DejaVu</span><span style=" color:#c0c0c0;" class=""> </span><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">Sans</span><span style=" color:#c0c0c0;" class=""> </span><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">Condensed"</span>;</pre>
<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">"Open</span><span style=" color:#c0c0c0;" class=""> </span><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">Sans</span><span style=" color:#c0c0c0;" class=""> </span><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">Regular"</span>;</pre>
<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">"Liberation</span><span style=" color:#c0c0c0;" class=""> </span><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">Sans</span><span style=" color:#c0c0c0;" class=""> </span><span style=" color:#008000;" class="">Regular"</span>;<!--EndFragment--></pre><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div>Then alphabetical.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I can check the default language side though.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""> 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.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Thats one option</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Craig</div></body></html>