Pierre Marchand wrote: > Vous (Craig Bradney) avez ?crit : >>> 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 > > What else can be considered is: one of the loaded image was in fact a PDF, so > by first rasterize it in 300dpi TIFF I could have the export in half initial > time ; another was a 625dpi TIFF, by first downscaling it to 300dpi I gained > a bit of time too ; I stopped there but I think it would have been possible > to tweak things here and there to keep the script as is and reduce the > processing time a lot.
No complaints here! My question (OK, I admit: initial panic) was only about the speed decrease over time, which looked dramatic going from 40 secs for the first run, to 4 minutes at run 250. But as far as I can see now after going through all 500... with each run simply a few seconds were added; I still don't understand why. I am impressed with the stability of Scribus handling such an intensive process for that long, even with the faux placed PDF included ;-) and very excited about what possibilities combining the scripter API with digital printing might offer to designers and publishers. I am sure we will do further work on / with this for design commissions to come. so... hats off to Scribus! best, Femke
