On Tuesday 04 January 2005 16:52, Gerald Quakenbush wrote: > All: > > Just d/l Scribus 1.2 and I am impressed. Used to work with PageMaker > 3.0/4.0 (yea, I'm old in Internet time...) Hadn't done a lot of DTP work > recently. > > Anyways, I'm launching a new business venture - an independent publishing > company. I was about to purchase Quark when I ran across Scribus. Our books > will be focused on open source and we like to use open source as much as we > possibly can. > > Anyways - I'm looking for tips and suggestions for doing 250-350 page book > projects in Scribus. Our books will feature lots of screen captures. One of > the issues I'm thinking about - should I put each chapter in its own file, > or try to put everything in one file? I dummyed up a 300 page scribus > document and flowed the text of the GLBA into it (I knew that law would be > good for something) and Scribus seemed to slow down quite a bit - but it > did handle it. (Didn't have any graphics in it.) > > I'd love to hear your suggestions. I'm planning to take what we learn in > this process and put it together in a paper and share with everyone.
If you arent into CVS, then 1.2.1 which we will release soon has a decent text rendering speed improvement, as well as various other additions and fixes.. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050104/25921e4c/attachment.pgp
