[Scribus] A success ... and a surprise :-)

[Thomas Zastrow]

Craig Ringer schrieb:

>Craig Bradney wrote:
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>>>Conclusion: Scribus is a Linux-program. As that, it works much more
>>>faster on Linux than on Windows. But, independently of the OS, it's a
>>>very usable layout-program which also works fine with complex documents.
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>>Funny, some say its faster on Windows :) Glad to hear the nice story though, 
>>thanks.
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>Yep, just last week I think we had someone saying they found it faster 
>on win32, and thought that was pretty weird for an OSS app. It probably 
>depends on things like your video drivers, X server, etc.
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I can't believe that VMWare's video drivers can work faster than the 
underlying hardware-software-combination ...?

>Internally, Scribus doesn't really care what window system it's 
>displaying on. The drawing operations are the same. The chances are that 
>any differences are within Qt, rather than Scribus, when it comes to 
>display output.
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Yes, that could be the point: QT is the bottle-neck ... if Trolltech now 
that?

Greetings,

Tom