On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 00:52:39 +0000 Dave Brzeski & Jilly Paddock <dave at cathaven.co.uk> dijo:
>I picked up a copy of the Scribus 1.3.5 Beginner's Guide by Cedric >Geary and was a little worried when I read in the preface that Scribus >was ideal for helping create business card, brochures, newsletters, >magazines & catalogues, but books aren't mentioned. Is Scribus up to >the task of laying out paperback books and are there any limitations I >need to know about going in? I haven't used the latest versions for book length work, although I hear that there have been improvements in the speed for long documents. In the past Scribus became slower and slower the longer the document became, hence it was not recommended for long jobs. Having said that, there are tricks to avoid speed problems. The most obvious is to split the work into smaller files, e.g., make each chapter a separate file, then export each to PDF and assemble the PDFs into the final document with PDF tools. But there are other tricks, for example, when I created a 138-page book I had the main document open and another smaller document open at the same time. I would do new pages in the small document and then transfer them page by page to the main document when they were finished.
