Axel Bojer skrev: > Hello! > > I am currently struggeling with a book theh I am trying to set up nicely > with Scribus. After having made the switch to Scribus for Broschures and > a magazine I am now experiencing all kinds of drawbacks with the book > I am working on. In the hope of getting some good tips I am now making > this summary. Perhaps it could be used in the online manual or as a > separate tip page, I have not seen one that goes in depth about this. At > least it would be welcomed if users experiencing--or working--with other > big documents in Scribus could share their experiences. > > I am aware of some bug reports (of wich I can not remember the numbers) > that adresses some of, or all, the problems I am mentioning.
Here are some issues I found: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 0002438: Metabug: Cases of extreme memory use http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=2438 0004076: large document takes several minutes to load http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4076 0004328: Severe slowdown in paragraph styles if preview is activated http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4328 0004024: Get Image Preview too slow for production machines, for magazine/publication etc - doesn't handle big tiffs well http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4024 0004835: color list on property palette is updated very often http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4835 (Slows Scribus down. That means it might help to remove all unused colours). 0004575: Style Manager: Preview tabs http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4575 (Suggestion for a speed improvment of the style manager) 0004513: 100% cpu usage while aligning the text http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4513 (Probably not fixable before 1.3.4. Also mentioned is the slowness of updating when changing the text style) 0001036: Severe performance problem on documents with very large number of linked frames http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1036 It seems like many (or all?) of these problems will be adresse, perhaps even resolved with the coming of the new text system in 1.3.4. Until then, working on big documents with Scribus seems not be be very good *sigh* I do not want to go back to Windows and to Pagemaker, and doing so would render much work already done seemingly useless, so, I will try to force my way through :-/ Is there an easy way to collect two or more finished documents into one? Hopefully without having to edit the resulting file afterwards :-) If yes I may give it a try ... Best regards Axel Bojer
