On 05/19/2012 11:29 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 05/18/2012 04:48 AM, Christof Jung wrote: >> Hi, >> I am relatively new to Scribus. >> Currently I am trying to layout a simple A5 invitation which so far >> has a >> photo (< 5 MB) and some text on path, and some plain text, so nothing >> really big. Anyhow, whatever click I make (edit a path, zooming, >> scrolling >> ...), I get the "spinning waterball" of MacOS for one or two seconds. >> This >> is obviously annoying and makes it almost impossible to work with. >> My Macbook is fairly recent and I have, except for Firefox, no other >> application running in parallel. >> I upgraded from 1.3.9 recently and I think I did not have these >> performance >> problems in the old version. >> Thanks >> > Even "< 5 MB" is pretty big for something reduced to A5. > You can try setting the display resolution to Low, or maybe even turn > off the display of the image when you are not needing it. > Something I just discovered which would be useful to know as an option:
If you look in the Layers dialog, there is a check box for each layer for Outline Mode. What this does is simplify graphical elements on that layer, so a vector drawing would show only outlines, images would not show in an image frames on that layer. Greg
