On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:14:16 +0100 John Beardmore <John at T4sLtd.co.uk> dijo:
> >> It really would be good to know what makes Scribus slow > >> down in big documents and assay what various people have managed easily > >> / got away with. > >> > >> I suppose until 1.3.5 is released, there isn't much point in comparing > >> experiences in detail, but maybe once 1.3.5 is out we should all > >> contribute the following information for our larger projects ? > >> > >> Processor > >> RAM > >> Document number pages > >> Page size > >> Average number of linked text frames > >> Maximum number of linked text frames > >> Numbers of characters in linked text frapmes > >> Which operations in Scribus are least responsive > > The document I am working on at the moment is 120 pages with lots of > > vector graphics and text frames. But there are no text frame threads > > that go more than five or six frames, and there are no bitmaps. It is > > painfully slow, but I have found that learning and using keyboard > > shortcuts is some help. For example, if I deselect an object by > > clicking elsewhere on the canvas it takes ~15 seconds for the object to > > become deselected, but if I do Ctrl-Shift-a the object is deselected > > instantly. Similarly, right-clicking on a text frame to get the context > > menu and then selecting Edit Text it takes 5-10 seconds for the context > > menu to come up. But if I do Ctrl-y the Story Editor launches right > > away (although it still takes several seconds before it is ready). Just > > about every mouse action is slow, yet if I can use a keyboard shortcut > > the action happens instantly. > > OK - I'm not a Scribus developer, but if I were, I imagine that would > give me some clues. > > If the problem lurks with the innards of Qt there may not be much they > can do about it I guess, but at least using the keyboard short cuts can > be made known as a quicker way to navigate around Scribus. > > Out of interest, in terms of the check list I suggested above, what are > you using ? The computer is a Lenovo Thinkpad T61. It has a Core-2 Duo 2 GHz, SATA-1 hard disk, nVidia Quadro 140, 4 GB RAM, and I use Jaunty x86_64. It is about a year and a half old. It's not cutting edge, but it's far from ancient. I wonder if the mouse issues are within Qt.
