[Scribus] print preview extremly slow ?

[Sebastian Röder]

Hi Craig,

nice to see this massiv improvement in the print preview.

Maybe, you can give me a hind in the following problem, as there was nobody on 
the list how could answer - or maybe nobody understod my stupid english 
describtion. My printer-office expects 600dpi pdf from me - no problem. But 
how do I deal with photos, that have a resolution less than 600dpi (I have a 
4 megapixel digikam). If I put them into the scribus-doc, it`s shows me that 
they have around 300 dpi resolution. In the past, a used gimp tools to work 
with this pictures, as long as scribus shows me a 600 dpi resolution. But 
this is quite hard work, I don`t know whether is makes sense for quality at 
all and the picture date is quite high, so that scribus slows down. 

What if I use the original resolution photos and create 600 dpi pdfs? Do they 
have the original ~ 300 dpi resolution in the pdf, too - or are the converted 
into 600 dpi as well (what about quality?). Maybe, I have to set the picture 
resolution to 600 dpi in the pdf dialog to reach my aim, or is this option 
yust to define a picture-resolution different the the global pdf resolution?

I hope somebody can answer till sunday evening, cause I have to finish my work 
tomorrow. 

Thank you,

Sebastian     

Am Freitag, 27. Februar 2004 22:51 schrieben Sie:
> Hi Sebastian
>
> > As there is now possibility to run KDE3.2 with qt3 < 3.3.0 and (as I
> > already mentioned ) the SuSE qt3.3.0 rpms are called to be beta without
> > opengl-support, I set up a fresh SuSE 9.0 installation with qt3.2.3 and
> > KDE3.1.4. Then I installed a fresh compiled Scribus rpm (checkinstall)
> > from 22.02.04 CVS. After having Scribus adjusted at the preferences
> > dialog, I opened up my old document. which I have to finish till
> > thursday, and it is as slow as posted in my KDE3.2 treat. But I think the
> > speed is OK for work - the real problem is the print preview. It opens up
> > REAL slowly, even with a small and easy dokument (CD-Cover with one
> > picture and one textbox) and when I check or uncheck one of the boxes
> > with the CMYK options and so on, I have to wait > 10 sec. till the is a
> > result on the screen (for the CD-Cover, with the bigger document, I did
> > not the any result after one minute, thought).
> >
> > Is this a normal behaviour? Don`t get me wrong - if this option is still
> > under heavy development, I don`t want to complain. I just want to know
> > whether I did something wrong. I am looking forward into a bright future
> > with scribus, if the print preview does it job a little faster.
>
> If you were to grab CVS from today, you should notice a BIG difference
> in Print Preview speed (I do), and as well it now saves Print Preview
> preferences.
>
> regards
> Craig