On 01/09/2010 06:56 AM, Henrik Larsen wrote: > I agree to the last part in particular: The lack of long document support is > causing me to worry about using Scribus for editing and layout projects! Is > there anything on the horizon, or should those with such needs seek other > pastures? I tried OO Writer, but though it works, the memory pressure seems > to be too much, and it starts behaving rather erratically with much graphic > and pagecount in it. Scribus was to be my rescue, it seems now I might have > been too hopeful? > For now and the foreseeable future, the recommended method is to break your work into 20-30 page fragments, export these to PDF, then splice them together with something like pdftk -- other utilities are also available.
This is how Christoph and I (disclaimer: Christoph did the layout work) managed to make the PDF for our Scribus manual (400+ pages), so quite large projects are possible. Greg
