On Tuesday 15 December 2009 09:16:28 a.l.e wrote: > hi chris, > > > The graphics are in SVG form (created by Inkscape) and Scribus is > > being used to add the text and produce the print ready PDF. > > > > However, the SVG file is very large (> 2MB) and complicated (it is a > > detailed map). > > > > This causes Scribus to perform extremely slowly and it normally > > crashes within a couple of minutes of the SVG being imported. Scribus > > is effectively unusable. > > this is one of the cases, where i would really like to have way to > include a svg in a image frame (like for the pdfs), let scribus generate > a thumbnail (which may be inserted in the .sla or the .svg itself) and > only converting to native elements when exporting to pdf or printing. > > the final step may get slower, but -- at least -- it would be possible > to use bigger vector files with scribus. > > > from the questions i get in irc, i have the feeling that this is what > most of the people expect... > > > > going back to the original question: this is not possible yet and the > only thing i can think off, is to throw some RAM into your computer... > > > ciao > a.l.e > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
What OS, what memory size, and if Linux what swap size? -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
