[scribus] massive slowdown - typing int text boxes

Craig Bradney cbradney at scribus.info
Sat Feb 7 17:18:36 UTC 2015


What's the date or other info from Help about that could tell us what version/ from when you are running?



> On 7 Feb 2015, at 18:16, Thorsten Rochelmeyer <thr-news at rochelmeyer.com> wrote:
> 
>> Am 07.02.2015 um 18:01 schrieb JLuc:
>> 
>> I sometime have very bad slowdown issues on a powerfull machine with
>> 16Go memory.
>> Maybe not as bad as yours but sometime one letter a second.
> 
> Oops! Was just thinking about adding some memory, but if that does not
> solve the problem ...
>> 
>> I have sometime had the feeling that i could improve this
>> in the following ways :
>> 
>> - only use ONE layer. A second layer is not worth the induced slowdown
>> (thats http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=12825)
> 
> I barely ever use layers. Maybe i should, but i never learned to do so.
>> 
>> - use the very latest video drivers for your graphic card.
>>  it's worth carefully searching on your graphic card internet site
>>  whether they provide recent drivers for linux, and install them
> 
> Will investigate in that later.
>> 
>>  My card is an Intel ivybridge, I used
>> https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads
> 
> Nvidia ;-(
>> 
>> - only use linked text frame when you really need them
> 
> Those frames are not linked, but that is good to know, anyway.
>> 
>> It still remains very strange that such simple operation
>> as typing one letter takes so much time sometime.
> 
> Yep. I thought we left those issues behind us about ten years ago.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Thorsten
> 
> 
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