> ----- Original Message ----- > Subject: [scribus] Big freeze and recoveery with 1.3.5 > From: John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> > To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.info> > Date: 11-11-2008 23:27 > > > While trying to recreate the Brochure template in 1.3.5 Scribus froze > tighter than (insert Alaska joke here.) I could not shut down the > story editor or the main window. I finally shut down the Kde session > and then got an error message from Scribus asking me if I wanted to > save my work. So all was not lost. > > Is this maybe a memory problem? I have 512 MB plus scads of virtual. > Yes, I know 1.3.5 is a development version.
512 is not much for DTP work, and with Scribus's current memory usage for images nowhere near enough. I would certainly recommend 1Gb, if not 2Gb. Then again, I'm just impatient and love spending money on hardware, so none of my numerous machines have less than 2Gb :). Craig
