[scribus] New Linux User -- Scribus in place of Page Maker 6?

[John Beardmore]

Lars O. Grobe wrote:

>> Looking forward to 1.3.5...
> 
> As everyone is talking about 1.3.5 - can I expect mayor improvements in 
> memory management? I am rather happy with scribus, but I experience 
> awful slowdowns on documents with many drawings, and I remember those 
> times when I was doing layout on Quark 4, OS 9 and 256 MB ... now even 
> my 1GB seam to be not enough, so some things are not very efficient here 

I take your point. Better memory management will always be better, but...

     With the cost of two gig of RAM less than a tank of petrol,
     isn't the cheapest / least effort option to throw RAM at the
     problem for the time being ?

That's not to say that better memory management won't be worth while in 
the end. No doubt it will address the analogous problem with big 
machines working on HUGE documents.


Cheers, J/.
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