[scribus] Long Document Preparation Workflows

JLuc jluc at no-log.org
Sun Jan 10 21:10:03 CET 2010


Le 10/01/2010 16:34, Gregory Pittman a écrit :
> On 01/10/2010 10:24 AM, Henrik Larsen wrote:
>> What exactly is it that Scribus can't handle about long document. Just
>> for kicks, I made a 600 page document with random bits of text in it
>> (automatic text boxes on every page). No problem. So is it memory
>> problems when there is a lot of graphics involved? Or is there some
>> limit that just says "You've gone too far. Stop. Turn back."? Knowing
>> is half the battle...
>>
> There are 2 problems, typically: 1) the fact that images are loaded into
> RAM, and 2) when you make a change Scribus re-renders the entire document.

Another big problem arise with linked text frames :
when too many, the process slows and bugs at some time.

(I guess your 600+ random random bits of text are not linked !)

JLuc





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