On 15.05.2017 17:26, Craig Bradney wrote: > >> On 15 May 2017, at 17:28, ZASKE Martin <zm at revue-gugu.org> wrote: >> >> Dear Craig, >> >> thank you for helping with this. I wrote that our document will >> have 200+ pages. You wrote to remove some 196 pages in the middle. >> >> The team is still proof-reading the last chapters while I prepare >> the layout. So far, our document in Scribus has got 304 pages. Once >> I have the final text, I can insert the illustrations for the >> chapters after chapter 1. So far chapter 1 with illustrations and >> all the draft-text is running as far as page 87. So pages 88 to 304 >> are still empty but needed for the coming illustrations which will >> make the text flow further back. >> >> Once I know how many pages we will really need, I will delete the >> rest and will end up with some 200+. Is that a bad approach? Is >> there a limit of pages? >> >> Scribus got somewhat slower when I filled 87 pages with text and >> illustrations but seems stable in itself. Our chapters are huge, >> the book only got an intro plus three long chapters and I had hoped >> to keep the entire book in one file, because the text will still be >> fine-tuned until a few days before printing (first time for us to >> do such an extensive translation from Swedish). >> >> >> >> For your test, I left the master pages and the first two pages and >> the last two pages. All other pages >> >> <PAGE PAGEXPOS="519.528188976378" ... NUM="2" ... NUM="303" ... >> Di="0"/> I deleted. >> >> But you realize that there are already text-frames and >> illustration frames on each page? And many of those already have >> content in them. >> >> When I deleted all those pages "from the middle", Scribus will no >> longer open the document, it just crashes (closes) without any >> error message. >> >> Do I need to manually delete all content from the "middle pages" >> and how would I do that for some 300 pages? If you are telling me >> this is what I need to do, I will find a way. >> >> >> When I run Scribus from the Windows command line, like this >> C:\Program Files\Scribus 1.5.3.svn>Scribus.exe then I get no useful >> information either, sorry. It also crashes but no messages in the >> cmd window. >> >> >> What is the next step please? >> >> Martin >> >> > > > Hi Martin > > This is just to reduce the file size a little for testing by us. > > Don't edit the file in a text editor. Just open the copy SLA in > Scribus and delete the pages using the Page Delete menu item. If > there?s 200 pages, then delete using that item from page 3-197. Save > the file. If it crashes when exporting to PDF, send us the PDF and > the SLA file. If it doesn?t crash, try and delete a few less pages, > e.g. 100. Try exporting again. > > Craig ___ Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net Edit your > options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net >
It does not crash but the Adobe Reader cannot open, so I fear for the print shop. This happens even when I only keep the first five pages. I am sending my files to Craig and jghali off-list. Martin -- ZASKE Martin responsable G?G? BP 50 - Bassila - B?nin tel G?G? 66.66.11.11 tel pers 97.44.62.95
