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

[Marc R. Stockmeier]

Dear Greg, dear Tim, dear All,

thank you for the answers.

1.3.5 is the developer branch. I used the svn trunk from 02.08.2008. The 
effort to compile Scribus was just to test whether we have a problem in the 
file itself or if we encountered a limitation of scribus current stable 
version, which seems to be the case.

The suggestion to use LaTeX is good but not practicable... (I wrote all my 
different thesises using LaTeX) And we would like to have the image placing 
cababilities of Scribus.

We will go on with the splitting of the document. But for practical reasons 
only one document would be preferable... Anyway 1.3.5 seems to be on a good 
track;-)

Best regards 

    Marc



On Monday 04 August 2008 18:31:01 Gregory Pittman wrote:
> 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
>
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