On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 00:28, Gregory Pittman wrote: > John Pettigrew wrote: > > I'm looking at using Scribus 1.1.6 on my SuSE 8.2 system (nothing special > > added beyond the SuSE-provided updates) but am having a few problems. > > > > Basically, Scribus seems to run quite slowly when editing text. It's fairly > > easy to see simply entering text - the display lags behind the keyboard > > entry > > and the CPU usage increases, up to 100% if the lag gets serious (i.e. I > > enter > > lots of text by e.g. pasting lots). Does anyone know how to deal with this? > > This obviously has to do with how Scribus renders/displays the fonts. I > see it on all the systems I have used it on (including an Athlon 800MHz, > P4 2.66GHz), and it happens especially when you have a lot of text in > linked boxes for several pages. This is why whenever you can, you want > to use a separate text editor or Story Editor for that purpose. The > problem is also linked to the aggravation of Story Editor frequently > messing up fonts, styles, sizes and so on.
> What makes it especially striking is when you compare Acrobat reader's > ability to scroll through a document you created with Scribus -- I > realize acroread is not an editor, but Scribus is slow scrolling when > it's not editing. I really wonder what the issue is on these systems. Scribus FLIES on this P4 and on my Athlon. ID2 is actually about the same speed for similar tasks. > I notice that SVG programs seem to have a feature to directly edit SVG > files -- maybe that's what Scribus needs? Not sure how that goes to solving anything. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040409/ca7f1ddb/attachment.pgp
