hi john jason, > Scribus has always been slow, and 1.3.5 Rc2 is no exception. but scribus is rather snappy on my computer (for smaller documents than a book). and my computer is a modern eee pc with an atom CPU and 2 GB of ram. you may try to upload a document which is slow on you computer and let other people see on their machine how it behaves... take care a.l.e