When I read the posting by Femke Snelting, the idea came to my mind that it would be a nice idea to have some sort of performance test suite for scribus.
We used to publish a cultural magazine (el Sism?grafo) using InDesign for layout. I sometimes re-layouted part of the magazine with Scribus just to see how it worked performance-wise. Years ago I wrote a document meant for uncovering the weak points of laser-printers and copiers. (Irregularities in rasters with different toners, clouds, registration, dirt, wire strips, color variation on different parts of a sheet, color variation throughout print jobs, quality of degradations, etc.) So, the idea is to have a set of documents each of which focusses on a different aspect: heavy image load, lots of text frames with different styles, heavy font usage, etc. This is not meant to substitute bug reports and other means to improve quality of software, but may introduce a ceteris paribus into the testing which would make it easier to keep track of performance improvements. any comments?
