On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:12:01 -0500 Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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. i guess he was also refering to the cross references and TOC part of a long document... with some dedication, you can manage those, too, but we have to admit that scribus is still not a good tool for it... ciao a.l.e
