>> I'm planning to buy a computer for my layout workings and as I have >> no idea about the standards nowadays I'd like to take advantage of >> your experience. How much RAM, processor capacity... do I need to >> run Scribus in a comfortable way (no sudden crashs etc.)? Hi,
sudden crashes should not appear. I have been able to put together a 30page a5 portfolio broshure full of technical drawings (e.g. lots of scaled-down cad drawings containing hatches and too much detail), which may be one of the worst cases, and it does not crash. On my 5.5 years old G4 powerbook - 867MHz and 1GB Ram ;-) Still, to set up an environment you need to know what you are going to do. Are you working on books, articles, one-page projects? Of course Scribus is rather hungy for memory and cpu power - but on the infinite scala between a multi-cpu shared memory system and a power-effective laptop, you need some guesses about your specific need. Besides that, when talking about hardware, you should probably also think about color management issues. In many cases, some few less MHz, but a nice light setup at your work-place and a calibration decive for the screen will give more comfort. Also think about such issues when choosing your platform (e.g. Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, ...) - how well documented and relyable is the workflow for working with postscript, color etc. I have been working on Windows, Mac and Linux now, and while installing scribus is rather easy on all of them, a complete set-up including color management, additional tools for vector- and pixel-editing as well as scripting and postscript- or pdf-processing takes a while. CU Lars.
