On Tuesday 17 January 2006 16:14, Mark Nowiasz wrote: > Hi all, > > Due to unforeseen circumstances I had to layout a magazine containing 40 > pages. I managed to do the work in just one day - without previous > experiences in any DTP software :-) Scribus ist just great - I've never > used a program which was *that* intuitive and easy to use, so thanks for > this terrific program :-) > > The bad news: I've encountered three problems: > > 1. After finishing 30 pages I tried to moved some pages, the > program crashed (signal 11). Unfortunately, the document was > corrupt - when I tried to load the document, scribus did also > crash. After recovering from my shock, I managed to correct the > document using a plain editor. To prevent this, it would be a > good idea if scribus won't save the document in case of crashed > - or save an emergency copy, but it's not a good idea to > overwrite the file on disk.
It should be writing to filename.sla.emergency in this case. > 2. For reasons unknown to me, the printer wants the pages as images > - jpeg preferred - I know it sounds odd, and I myself consider > it to be *very* strange. When exporting pages as images, the > text looks really bad - no matter which resolution I choose. > Apparently no anti-aliasing is being applied. Choose another printer. > 3. The alternative to jpegs would be pdf - in a book format (Page 1 > next to 40, etc.).Unfortunately, scribus does not support this - > and using pdf2ps -> psbook ist not an option: I tried and gs > quit after about 600 megabytes(!) of output. Scribus 1.3.x will support this. Scribus 1.3.2cvs already supports exporting, in your case, 40 pdfs, if that is what is required by a printer. > Well, the printer was a nice guy, used a "normal" pdf generated by > scribus (300dpi) and manually corrected it - but I'd like to do the work > myself without bothering the prnter, especially since the time factor > was critical this time. > > Any ideas about 2.) or 3.)? > > I'm using scribus 1.2.4.1 (FreeBSD/Gnome), 1.2.x will never support 3).. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060117/2a7026f7/attachment.pgp
