Felix wrote: > Hi togehther! > > I am about to switch from InDesign to Scribus. I'm using it mostly for > daily text issues. I know OpenOffice would probably be the first choice > here, but there I am missing some useful thing such as the direct access > to kerning via the nice properties menu Scribus has. All in all I am a > great fan of Scribus' interface. > > To the point: > Scribus takes a lot of performance when I am marking text in a text > field. In the .9 version it produced such a delay during marking that I > found it unusable. I upgraded to .11 and its working better now, but it > still uses up to 50% of my processor. I am running the program on a > 2x2.2GHz machine. > I switched off all desktop effects because xorg also used lots of cpu in > the process. > > Are there other ways to get less cpu usage? > > Other issues: > When marking text in a text field with the mouse, the cursor has to stay > inside the field. That makes it pretty annoying to mark, for example, > the first character in the upper left corner. > > When clicking on a link in the "online" tab of help/about/, the whole > text vanishes but no action takes place. when opened again, the text is > back. > If you're doing a lot of marking and editing, best to use Story Editor for this -- you can update to the frame without exiting Story Editor to see what you're doing.
Greg
