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

[Jeffrey Silverman]

I never like the "throw more memory at it, its cheap" argument because
this misses some things like,

What if my machine is maxed out on memory already?
What if I have an older or less high-end machine that only takes, say,
1GB of system memory?
What if I am just an end user and don't know how to physically add
memory to my machine?

These types of questions are pretty relevant to a desktop application
targeted at end users who are not necessarily computer administrators.

Seeya!

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:18 PM, John Beardmore <John at t4sltd.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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