John Morris wrote: > 1. It sounds to me from a.l.e's and John Beardmore's comments that I > should not expect Scribus to smoothly handle any single file of more > than about 50 or 60 pages, regardless of the linkages between text > boxes. Is that correct?
Actually I didn't even notice Scribus slowing down (apart from load time) for 50 to 60 page documents, but my runs of link text frames never run to more than a few pages, and I generally have a lot of graphs and photographs. I'm left with the impression that at least on a 2.4 Ghz machine with 4 gig of RAM, it could do bigger docs. It was noticeably poorer in its performance on a 1.8 GHz box with 2 gig of RAM, but that was back in the days of 1.3.3.9 so things may have got better, and I've seen it work on P/III boxes at 800HMz too, though I've not played much in that environment. Editing within Scribus has been clunky but usable since before I started using it, but has improved steadily. Groups of linked text frames can be a bit grumpy to edit, but I've never had significant problems. It would be interesting to try importing some really long passages into Scribus linked text frames, to try and tease out if the thing that slows it down is number of pages, density of characters, or number of linked frames etc. A lot of advice on this seems a bit anecdotal, possibly based on old versions, and possibly pessimistic. I'd experiment to find out before embarking of a big project, but I'd be surprised if you couldn't do it, and you may not even need to split the work. Maybe start off with a couple of 50 page chapters ? Feedback might inform priorities for future development (or let us know how far we've come !), so would probably be of use to the wider community too. Cheers, J/. -- John Beardmore, MSc EDM (Open), B.A. Chem (Oxon), CMIOSH, AIEMA, MEI Managing Director, T4 Sustainability Limited. http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/ Energy Audit, Carbon Management, Design Advice, Sustainable Energy Consultancy and Installation, Carbon Trust Standard Registered Assessor Phone: 0845 4561332 Mobile: 07785 563116 Skype: t4sustainability
