ols6000 at sbcglobal.net wrote: > At 12:47 PM 9/11/2006, you wrote: > >> I'm just guessing, but with images that size... 6500 x 4000... there >> can and will be problems... sometimes, the application just times out >> before it can read the entire file. Try reducing the JPEG to page >> size... if that doesnt work, you may have a corrupted file. >> > > There is no reason why Scribus should not be able to handle what you > are calling "large images". > > I would like to know what you mean by "the application times out". > There is no time restriction on the operation of the pgm. > > I have demonstrated that I don't have a corrupted file, by having the > same failure occur on different files, and by using different pgms to > successfully read these files. > > So we are back to the original question: why can't Scribus read some > large image files? What is the limitation (or error) in Scribus that > restricts it to smaller files? How can this limitation (or error) be removed? > Gosh, I resampled an image to 6000 by 3000 pixels in Windows Paint Shop Pro, and put it into a frame in Scribus 1.3.3.3. My computer has 2 gigabytes of RAM. I had no problems at all. I started with a page-sized frame, got the image, and then using Properties "scale to frame size" button. All went quickly on my AMD 64 2x 4400+ box. The image saved as a PNG was over 11 megabytes in length.
frank
