On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 02:08, Frank Cox wrote: > The major issue is scrolling speed. The way that the paper is laid > out currently is as follows: > > 1. All of the commercial ads are placed approximately where they go > in the finished paper. > > 2. The classified ads are imported in a big single file (html this > time, probably OpenOffice format next week after I have a chance to > change the database to do that).
Would I be correct in guessing that you end up with a large set of linked text frames? I've definitely noticed performance issues with linked frames, and I would expect columns of classified ads to use them. http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1036 If this is the problem you are seeing, Scribus should be much faster when you're working on the _end_ of your document than the beginning. Unfortunately, the only work-around I could find was to un-link the frames. After that, everything was back to normal. This required copying the text out of a frame, unlinking it, and pasting the text back in as there does not appear to be any option to unlink a frame without clearing its contents. -- Craig Ringer
