[scribus] Speeding up Scribus WinXP

[John Beardmore]

Leander Sukov wrote:

> That is unfortunate with scribus: It is slow, no - it is as fast as dead 
> turtle, when it has to work with more than just a few pages.

It doesn't seem that bad here. The longest doc I've done was a 61 page 
report, mixed text and graphics.


>We are still 
> using an old pagemaker (6.5) on a window computer (the only one remaining) to 
> do the layout for books. 

We've switched from pagemaker 6.51 and indesign 1.5 to Scribus because 
Scribus is more stable.


> We would love to do all layouts with scribus, but due to the speed we can't. 

What spec machine are you using ?  We're on a 2.4GHz core duo CPU with 4 
gig of RAM.


> It is also not possible to split books into different documents, because you 
> loose a lot of control on orphan, widows etc.

It's certainly not convenient anyway !

How many pages do your stories cover ?  I tend to keep the stories 
short, only a few pages, but the full document may be quite large, and 
we don't seem to have significant speed problems.


Cheers, J/.
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