[Scribus] Can't place some JPEG images

[frank gaude']

ols6000 at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> At 01:08 PM 9/11/2006, you wrote:
>   
>> ols6000 at sbcglobal.net wrote:
>> Gosh, I resampled an image to 6000 by 3000 pixels in Windows Paint Shop
>> Pro, and put it into a frame in Scribus 1.3.3.3. My computer has 2
>> gigabytes of RAM. I had no problems at all. I started with a page-sized
>> frame, got the image, and then using Properties "scale to frame size"
>> button. All went quickly on my AMD 64 2x 4400+ box. The image saved as a
>> PNG was over 11 megabytes in length.
>>     
>
> Was the image you imported to Scribus a JPEG? Does the same process 
> work with a 6500 x 4000 image?
>   
I created a 6500 x 4234 image as a JPG, lightly compressed, it is 4.5 
megabytes in length. Scribus worked just as it did with PNG, perfectly. 
How much RAM do you have?