[scribus] "Blank" document <- user needs help

[Richard Foley]

Hi Mika,

I have used 1.4.3 for both books. My process was to build each chapter
individually, and to combine them within Scribus at the end to make the actual
book. One very minor headache is then adding the chapter markers to auto-create
the TOC, but that's a small price.

Reading your comments, I do note that I did almost no grouping of objects at
all. Just keeping things in separate chapters and aligned on a master page grid
did most of the work for me. However, mine is just a colour paperback, so
perhaps is less complex than your work.

Just now I have been using 1.4.4 (from svn) because I need the PDF/X-1a export
for LSI (the printer). So far so good, (with the cover), but still waiting on
final premedia feedback from the printer on the final exported PDF.

I cc'd the scribus-dev list on your mail, hopefully someone with a bit more
insider knowledge will come back to you, and be able to help.

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Richard Foley

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On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 07:34:10PM +0300, Mika Aleksandroff wrote:
> Joop,
> 
> On 2 May 2014 16:40, Richard Foley <rich.inud at naktiv.net> wrote:
> > However, I can say that I've used Scribus to produce 2 full colour books of
> > over 200 pages, (with a photo on nearly every page), and I've been soundly
> > impressed at the overall quality and robustness of the code. There are issues,
> > and it's not InDesign because it's produced with volunteer work instead of
> > millions of dollars. But when it works, it usually works very well.
> 
> Hmm, what version have you been using?
> 
> Because I also thought about doing that but noticed that I really had
> to split it into several files as it started noticeably slow down
> after maybe 40 pages or so and too much bugs started appearing when
> cloning/copying objects (copy an object and it stays attached to its
> parent as if they were grouped together) and so on..
> 
> I'm doing a practise book for kids for school and there were maybe
> 2000 objects in the document when I had to split it. After splitting
> and having kept object count under 1000 it has been working rather
> well, occasional aforementioned bugs and crashes when ungrouping
> objects (I have learned to save before ungrouping, it happens that
> often, actually).
> 
> > Maybe file a bug report, or look/post on the scribus-dev list?
> 
> Huh, good idea, I'll try that as I didn't find a way to register for
> bug report.. :-(
> 
> 
> .mika
> 
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