[Scribus] Memory Consumption on Image Frames

[Gregory Pittman]

Nicol?s Carranza wrote:
> I saw that it depends on how you tried to import/open the PDF. Using 
> "File->Import->Import EPS/PS..." scribus imports the PDF not only as 
> images but also as poligons and many other objects, this also uses a lot 
> of memory but I think that this is another problem.
>
> I don't need all those objects ("PDF components") imported, I only need 
> to annotate over the images; so, I used a script to export each PDF page 
> as a good quality image and then import them to a scribus doc (using 
> something like this script 
> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Automatic_import_of_images_from_a_directory_using_a_script; 
> I can send you my script if you want). This makes things a lot easier 
> for scribus (it does not construct all of those objects), but the memory 
> problem because of cached images arises.
>   
BTW, that's my script on the Wiki. You can use it to import PDFs, 
realizing that what you are doing is importing into image frames, and 
therefore rasterizing them to bitmaps.

Greg