Well, now I've tried creating my left/right page templates. and after filling it in with the proper text (around 350-400 pages) scribus is very slow! I can scroll down a few pages, then I should wait until it refreshes, opening the file takes more than a few mins, and adding a text frame to add the right header takes more than 5 mins (I'll have to do this for more than a hundred pages because place holder text in a frame created in the master page can't be edited), and editing text (typing the chapter title in the right page header box, fixing a typo, changing a word, etc.) and editing text frames is just too slow for realistic use! I have also added a low res pic as a placeholder for the inside cover, but I don't think that its the pic that's slowing it down. I've got quark on a different machine w lower specs, and quark runs fine (other than it crashes often). Has anyone else been able to reproduce such slowness in scribus? And how to speed things up when working with large files? Is there a way to shut off the screen view of the text frame contents (so that the text/pic frames just show a big X to reduce render times) or lower the quality of screen preview? I'd rather use scribus than quark, because as far as I've seen, quark crashes way too often, and scribus at least doesn't crash as much.
>I'm using mandriva2007 with the latest smp kernel. My system has a 1.6 GHZ turion 64x2. This slowdown is only with scribus. When I use the smp kernel, scribus can take five or more mins to >complete an action. But I notice if I use a 32 bit kernel, no smp, scribus runs ok--adding 500 blank pages took 75 sec, adding sample text took 60 secs(I then opened the text editor and copied the >sample text a few times to get 30 paragraphs and about 70,000 characters), and updating the style took about 1.5 mins, and applying the text to the document took about 1.5 mins again. I haven't >tried adding pics yet.
