* Dirk Pilat <pilatdirk at mac.com> [2007-05-28 16:51:58 +1200]: > Hiho, > > using scribus happily and quite successfully for a literary magazine and > am delighted about the online documentation and the functionality. Just > one question remains: > > I am using scribus 1.2.5 at home on a Laptop sporting 1.5 GB ram and a > 3100 Sempron on Ubuntu Feisty and on a Athlon 64 3500 system with 1GB ram > on Feisty 64 (and an nvidia 6800gt). Editing a 14 page document with > moderate graphic load feels quite sluggish on both machines. > > At work I have a cheap 2.6ghz celeron with onboard intel graphics and > 256mg ram using scribus 1.3.3.8 on WIndows XP, and editing the same > document seems unbearably quick and responsive. > > Is this a Linux/Windows issue, or is Scribus 1.3.3.8 just so much better > compiled? > > Dirk
Hello Dirk, Craig already mentioned the other details, so I'd just like to point you to our repositories where you can get up-to-date scribus packages for your Ubuntu/Feisty deb http://debian.scribus.net/debian/ feisty main non-free deb http://debian.tagancha.org/debian/ feisty main non-free are the complete source lines if you edit /etc/apt/sources.list directly. non-free section is needed to get the documentation. So, Scribus 1.3.3.9 (current stable as 1.2.5 has already been retired) is the "scribus" package and its documentation is in the "scribus-doc" package. If you want you can also check out the new features currently in development by trying the "scribus-ng" and "scribus-ng-doc" packages which currently track Scribus 1.3.4 series. Just remember that you might not be able to open 1.3.4 edited document in 1.3.3.x and 1.3.4 might be less stable. Regards, Alex.
