hi > Not sure if this will help, but I note Scribus 1.3.3.13 and almost > certainly 1.3.5 can import compressed svg files too, ie svgz format. > SVG files will be huge but a compressed one will shrink greatly, just > like compressing a text file as that's all it is really. Inkscape > does export these svgz files too. > > I guess the bottleneck is where Scribus is extracting whats in the SVG > file, but its worth a try, and wont take long.
imho, this will make the importing even slower, since scribus will first have to decompress the svg file... ciao a.l.e
