Franky Van Liedekerke wrote: > This, together with the "my windows were slow but got better after going > through > them once", seems to be a memory problem: scribus is eating up all the > available memory, > after which the system starts swapping. Stopping scribus releases the memory > and eventually > the swapped out applications come back alive (after weaking them up by going > through the > windows). So my suggestion would be to check the memory usage while trying > it again. > Me myself already noticed that, in 0.9.9 on redhat 8.0, the printing eats up > huge amounts > of memory: scribus needs about 150 MB of ram during printing ... Shouldn't do that, my test show a normal behaviour, a slight increase in memory requirements due to some new Tables allocated for converting Unicode to glyphnames.
But this can't us 150 MB of Ram. A typical Font has around 260 Characters, each Character requires 4 Byte for the Unicode-Code and 40 Bytes for the Glyphname, this gives a total size for this Table of 11440 Bytes, even a Font like Arial with 1127 Characters needs only 49588 Bytes. Assume you have 600 Arial like Fonts, this would use around 3 MB for the tables. So 150 MB is quite to much. Best Regards, Franz Schmid
