[scribus] Many Pages, large connected textfield, long loading times

[Gregory Pittman]

Thomas Zastrow wrote:
> Marc R. Stockmeier schrieb:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am new to Scribus and hope you can help me.
>>
>> We startet a "Jahrbuch" (kind of annual report) of a school. It will 
>> have, with images, around 300 Pages. The text was already written, 
>> therefore we wanted to have only one huge textfield (connectet the 
>> textfield of each page with its successor...) Now we have 187 pages 
>> text (including some images).
>>
>>
>>   
> Hi Marc,
>
> please mention that Scribus 1.3.5 is a developer branch: it can change 
> every day and should not be used in productive environments, 
> especially not for such a big project as your Jahrbuch. So, I would 
> suggest to stay with Scribus 1.3.3.12 which is the stable version.
>
> To handle such big projects, perhaps it would be a good idea to split 
> up the document into several files, for example 15 separate files each 
> containing  20 pages could be a good compromise.
>
> On the other hand, if you have only floating text with a small number 
> of images included, Scribus is perhaps not the right tool for your 
> task. I would suggest to take a look at LateX, which definitely will 
> have no problems handling 300+ pages of text.
If you haven't worked with LaTeX, this will be a lot of work. Scribus 
can certainly handle this, and it will help to break it up into 20-30 
page bits, then reassemble later - you should be able to break up the 
text, since surely there are some page breaks that need to happen. You 
will have to pay attention to and deal with any page numbering necessary.

Greg