On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 11:45:01 -0400 John Morris <johnjeff at editide.us> dijo:
> 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? I recently completed a student workbook of 120 pages in 1.3.5 Rc3 on Ubuntu x86_64. The document has a lot of vector graphics, but no bitmaps. Mostly it is just text, in threaded frames, but generally not exceeding six frames per story. I did this on a laptop is that is one and a half years old. Scribus was painfully slow when working on this document. However, other than a few bugs still remaining in Rc3, I found Scribus to be completely stable - never a crash. This is the first long document I have done in Scribus. In the past I have done textbooks in InDesign on Windows 2000, up to 550 pages. InDesign ran as fast with a 550 page document open as it did with a one page document open. I have also used PageMaker, QuarkXPress and Venture previously and never had an issue about slow speed when working on long documents. I have often wondered what it is about Scribus that makes it run so slowly with long documents. It's a common complaint, so I'm sure it's not just me. And I know zero about programming, so I have no idea what the developers can do to improve the situation.
