Simone Ambrosini wrote: > Hi, I'm using scribus to lay out our school magazine. I've noticed (now, and > 2 years ago) that running scribus on WinXP is quite slow. I mean that when I > have about 3 or 4 pages with text and images is usable, and then, when i > load text in all the 16 pages scrolling, moving boxes, editing text, etc > become very slow. > > I'm using an Athlon64 (3500+) with 2GB DDR and a ATi x800gto. I had the same > problems 2 years ago with a Pentium4 1.8 (the eldest generation), and i gave > the blame to the old CPU. > > Actually, if I use ArchLinux 64bit with KDE3.5 (or 4.1) it will improve > scribus performance? I would try it, but I have not enough time to repair my > archlinux, so i'm forced to winsows... :(, If you think that using linux > will be more comfortable, i'll spend some time on it > > I'm sorry for the mistakes in english!! :) But after 5hours of school and 6 > hours of work on a slow scribus i'm quite tired!! > I don't think I would count on a switch to Linux making a big difference. Probably the easiest thing you can do is to break this up into 2 parts, make the PDFs, then combine the PDFs with an outside utility.
Are these huge images? Maybe they can be cropped or scaled to reduce image overhead in screen updates. Greg
