i posted a similar malaise a while back. its apparently a known issue with large text frames. my experience however, was only that text entry in the frame was dreadful, not the whole app. the workaround for me was to use the storyboard editor rather than editing text directly in the frame.
HTH. --chris On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, wayne wrote: > I'm currently working on a 2 page document with 8 text frames (2 pairs of 4 > linked frames) total. Whenever I load the text frames, Scribus slows down > drastically, so much so that it becomes almost unuseable. It can take up to > 30 seconds from the time I click on a menu till the menu opens. I've tried > different fonts (Bitstream, Corel, etc.) without success. I've also tried > IceWM instead of KDE, same result. I'm using Scribus version 1.2.1. Is there > anything I can do to remedy this situation? > > The minute I delete all of the text, Scribus speeds up again:( > > Thanks, > Wayne > Mandrake 10.1 > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
