John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:39:03 +0100 > John Beardmore <John at T4sLtd.co.uk> dijo: > >> John Jason Jordan wrote: >> >>> Scribus 1.3.5 RC3 on Ubuntu Jaunty x86_64. >>> >>> I am getting "Scribus crashed due to signal 6." >>> >>> I have a long document of 98 MB that I need to make some modifications >>> to. It is kind of painful to work in this document because Scribus is >>> so slow with it. The document is composed of student exercises, each of >>> which varies from one or two pages to eight pages. So I created new >>> documents for each of the six exercises that I need to modify, setting >>> each up with the same document setup as the original (margins, grid, >>> etc.). Then I opened the original document and navigated to each >>> exercise, copying the text frames for each exercise into the new >>> document for that exercise. As soon as each new document had the frames >>> and text that I needed to modify I saved the new document and closed >>> it. My plan is to do the modifications in the new small documents, then >>> copy and paste the text back into the frames in the original document. > >> As a work around, can you save the original document under a new name, >> then delete the pages you don't need so that you are only left with the >> ones that you need ? > > Heh. Great minds think alike. I just did that a few minutes ago. :)
Good - I'd have done it that way as a matter of instinct, but I don't know of any reason why your original approach shouldn't work. > It worked, except now I have another mess. You see, this whole thing is > a workaround for another problem - the embedded graphic lines that > failed to make it into the PDF. I am removing the lines and replacing > with a right-tab with underscore. Except doing that required editing > the style that I used for the text. And when I applied the new style it > undid all my careful manual kerning, so now I have to go through and > redo all that. Sympathies ! > It's just not my day to work in Scribus, I tell ya. Take a deep breath ! > I can even predict the next fiasco. After fixing this one exercise that > I am doing as an experiment, I will open the original document, then > copy and paste the fixed text into the frames in the original document > where it belongs. But the fixed text has an altered style. How much you > wanna bet ...? > > Well, we'll see in about an hour. :) :) Good luck ! 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
