[Scribus] Page background

[Christoph Schäfer]

Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2007 17:47 schrieb John Jason Jordan:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:17:36 +1000
>
> Dean McCorquodale <dmccorqu at bigpond.net.au> dijo:
> > the files are store in a .scribus folder. Try deleting this and then re
> > run scribus. it will create a new folder etc.
>
> That worked. Wish I knew what caused the problem so I could file a bug
> report. Oh well. Thanks for the tip. Problem solved.
>
> Of course, I after nuking the ~/.scribus folder I had to go in and
> recreate all my preferences. One does not seem to be working - Display
> Margins. I left it at the default and the margins showed up dark blue.
> All I wanted was a line in a different color showing where the margins
> were. So I set the margin color to white (same as the page area),
> thinking that this might then show a thin blue line that had been
> obscured by the blue color before. But it made the the margins
> invisible. So I went back and set the margin color to yellow (less of a
> blast to the eyes than the dark blue), and now margin color will not
> display at all, no matter what color I set it to.

Did you select "Show Guides" under File > Preferences > Guides?

> Since I will now have the capacity to do full color I need to figure
> out color management in addition to learning Scribus. Any tips on color
> how-tos for rank amateurs will be appreciated. Meantime, where do I
> enable color management and printer profiles?

http://www.normankoren.com/color_management.html is good place to start.

HTH

Christoph