[Scribus] 1.3.5 and memory

[Craig Bradney]

> ----- Original Message -----
> Subject: Re: [Scribus] 1.3.5 and memory
> From: Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>
> To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
> Date: 15-04-2008 15:22
> 
> 
> francesco fantoni wrote:
> > i still keep having huge problems with large photo books even on 1.3.5:
> > loading many images scribus eats up all the memory and system freezes.
> > It's a serious flaw in scribus design IMHO, never addressed as it seems.
> > I really don't know why you have to load all the images in memory, even
> > though just a few pages at a time are actually displayed, would it be so
> > difficult to have a better memory management for images? i really see it
> > as a serious issue, not a normal one as it's usually treated in bug
> > tracker. There are things i could do in scribus with the 1.2 version
> > that can't be achieved in 1.3.x
> >   
> There are various speed and memory issues that are the source of growing 
> pains with 1.3.5svn (this is a developmental version), and these are 
> being addressed. The problem of memory limits with images is a 
> long-standing one, and is also something we would like to iron out by 
> the official release of 13.5+.

Memory usage with images is planned for attention by Jean with 1.3.6+.

Regards
Craig