I'm a longtime user of Scribus, having hung on through some very crashy versions. The primary usability problem (one might even call it a bug) is the speed. I'll put up with a lot, and I've been generally happy with Scribus' progress, but I have to ask:<div>
<br></div><div>1. Is there a structural reason for the slowness (i.e. XML)? I've seen a lot of questions about this problem, but the developers never seem to address it.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Have any other users found workarounds that make things faster/usable? I keep most of my vector layers on "outline" mode, set all my images to lowest possible resolution, but this doesn't seem to do much. I work on documents of 25-50 pages, and I've even tried breaking the files up, but then keeping styles and formatting changes consistent between the parts became burdensome - and things were still slow.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Its embarrassing to realize that I keep Scribus on its own desktop and use the CPU monitor to know when its done with something.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Severn Clay-Youman</div><div>
<br></div><div>PS: I'm using Scribus 1.3.7 (from SVN) on 64-bit Ubuntu<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Severn Clay-Youman, LEED GA<br>Studio Les Bętes<br>33 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY<br><a href="http://www.lesbetes.com">www.lesbetes.com</a><br>
blog: <a href="http://lesbetes.wordpress.com">http://lesbetes.wordpress.com</a><br>
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