[scribus] Speeding up Scribus WinXP

[Simone Ambrosini]

i kept in account to split the magazine in 2 parts, but i think that 16
pages are not too much, and when i was loading text  in the 8th page i
already had that speeding down.

i'll try to use less quality images for the laying out and only at the end
loading the hi-res ones.

using my brother pc (core2duo e7300 with 2GB DDR2) could be a solution?
thanx
simone

2008/12/3 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>

> Simone Ambrosini wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm using scribus to lay out our school magazine. I've noticed (now,
>> and
>> 2 years ago) that running scribus on WinXP is quite slow. I mean that when
>> I
>> have about 3 or 4 pages with text and images is usable, and then, when i
>> load text in all the 16 pages scrolling, moving boxes, editing text, etc
>> become very slow.
>>
>> I'm using an Athlon64 (3500+) with 2GB DDR and a ATi x800gto. I had the
>> same
>> problems 2 years ago with a Pentium4 1.8 (the eldest generation), and i
>> gave
>> the blame to the old CPU.
>>
>> Actually, if I use ArchLinux 64bit with KDE3.5 (or 4.1) it will improve
>> scribus performance? I would try it, but I have not enough time to repair
>> my
>> archlinux, so i'm forced to winsows... :(, If you think that using linux
>> will be more comfortable, i'll spend some time on it
>>
>> I'm sorry for the mistakes in english!! :) But after 5hours of school and
>> 6
>> hours of work on a slow scribus i'm quite tired!!
>>
>>
> I don't think I would count on a switch to Linux making a big difference.
> Probably the easiest thing you can do is to break this up into 2 parts, make
> the PDFs, then combine the PDFs with an outside utility.
>
> Are these huge images? Maybe they can be cropped or scaled to reduce image
> overhead in screen updates.
>
> Greg
>
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