First, I would like to congratulate to the developers for creating such a great product. 1.3 development version is already world class. It is more intuitive and cleaner than Quark. I installed it on my Ubuntu box and so far, everything has been working. (I have been using it for three days) Currently, I am evaluating it from the usability point of view and I find it more user-friendly than Qark. But I think its color management could be improved. I got an idea which is not even my own but taken it from Macromedia Freehand, which is my favorite vector drawing application. In Freehand there is separate window for storing user created colors. When I create a custom color using either the color picker or modify an existing color swatch, a small window pops up asking me what do I want to do with the color, save as RGB, CMYK or Spot color. I pick the model and the color is saved. In addition, Freehand's swatch dialog not only lists custom colors and their names but also their color schema, either in RGB, CMYK or Spot mode, depending on the color model the user chooses. For instance, a green color shows the appropriate icon, the name of the color and the schema in the form of C=89%, M=5%, Y=79%, K=12%. The same applies for RGB and Spot colors. A similar feature could be easily adopted for Scribus. Just split the color swatch window horizontally and allocate the lower part for custom colors. This window could permit drag and drop functionality allowing users to drag default swatches from the color set or from the color picker. This dialog also would let users to save a color as RGB, CMYK or spot colors. I think these are extremely useful features and implementing them would make scribus awesome.
Regards, jozsefmak ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
