hi garry
It sounds like people have just two practical options for colour management:
1. Put in the time and effort to learn and properly use it, or;
2. Forget about it.
I think most people will choose the latter.
you are working hard to discourage people from using cm!
i work on a 'poor mans cm system' – as long as i don't print myself….
my screen is calibrated under the use of a professinally printed color test chart, but just by eyeball.
the workspace is far away from any window.
as my office printer isn't a high quality product, there's no use to try any cm on it.
…If someone has gone to the trouble of getting colour management properly set-up, how often would they switch it off?
as you can't uncheck the option to simulate printer colors on the screen in the
'new document' window, it's faster to switch cm off when creating something 'not really color sensible' in rgb than going to
'document setup' to disable the simulation, and while creating something intendet for screen use as well as for offset printing, i may switch cm on and off a couple of times while working.
For people who don't have colour management properly set-up, having this button where it is might suggest to some that switching it on - without knowing about calibration etc. - is just a simple button click. I would suggest that this could lead to some potentially expensive problems if someone assumes that "colour is being managed" (whatever they think that means) and they try and get stuff professionally printed and it comes out wrong.
in most cases this shouldn't be worse than without cm – but not better either…
I don't think that is good for the reputation of Scribus. Anyone can "just switch colour management on" by pressing the button without knowing what they're doing and think that something good will come of it when it probably won't.
here i agree. it would be good to have a good introduction for the cm (and maybe a better tooltip for this switch…)
This is a button that causes major things to happen in the background that most users won't be aware of until they try and get something printed, and only then the problem will come to light.
well, this is not a problem of a cm switch – ist's the problem of a consumer habit. ('i don't need to know cm – schribus will care about…')
Should that button be where it is?
as long as there is no other fast option, (no menu entry and no way for a keyboard shortcut) i would keep it there.
I'm just wondering if there is a good reason why something so potentially dangerous should be there…
it might be less dangerous than you think…
utnik