> > > The good news is: Scribus *just* finished producing 500 covers -- meaning > > it has run for 24 hours non-stop without complaining. The documents have > > been uploaded to the printers server now, we're keeping our fingers > > crossed the books will be delivered on time (pictures next week). > > Well, Femke, depending on the speed of your CPU, hard drive, and graphics > processor as well as the amount of RAM installed, that is not a long time to > produce 500 pages of graphics, each different. The RIPping and other > processing is quite resource intensive. That's just under 21 pages per hour, > or 2.9 pages per minute. What's the complaint?
Its not bad actually, 20s per generated and exported page. We can do better though, although to really do it will need a headless Scribus (ie no screen activity) to push faster. Throwing more CPU (Ghz, not cores) and memory might help a little. Craig
