Hi. I think that somebody on the list might be interestet in, how scribus (0.9.10) works on a low resource system like mine: Pentium 200, 96 MB RAM, 2MB video memory. Better than ever, i can say.
Since i updated my machine to Mandrake 9.1, text redraw has improved. Before (mkd 8.1), i was not able to create docs with a greater amount of Text. I had no problem, compiling scribus on mdk 9.1 ( i compiled without lcms and tiff support) compile time: around 2 1/2 hours Scribus 0.9.10 now starts quicker than ever (~22 sec.) Text redraw is by now "the brake" in scribus. The more text a textbox contains, the redraw on screen slows down. But it is now quick enough to work properly , even with longer texts. Although, in a longer textbox it is no good idea to type directly into the box, because after every added glyph the whole box is redrawn. The option "load Text" is therefore a great salvation. The only other great brake is printing or exporting pdf. On greater docs with pictures scribus works more than half a minute to get them printed or exportet. By the way, scribus performs better than ever on my system. It is a great tool, that i do not want to miss any more. Andreas Schalk
