On Monday 30 April 2007 22:33:51 avox wrote: > ols6000 wrote: > > At 10:43 AM 4/30/2007, Frank Cox wrote: > >>Is there any reason not to load those images into Gimp and scale > >>them down to a > >>more manageable size? > > > > I want the maximum resolution. Also, it would be a lot of work (there > > are many images). > > > > At 10:52 AM 4/30/2007, Craig Bradney wrote: > >>Since when? I often throw 3000x2000 hi res JPEGs at it, or bigger.. and > > its > > >>fine. > > > > It has always failed for me. These are the same images I filed bug > > reports on a while back. > > How much virtual memory do you have? And did you try to turn off > image preview in Scribus? > > > In any case, you see the error messages, and Scribus does crash, so > > there is something wrong. IMHO, an application like Scribus should > > never crash, regardless of the conditions or input, without some > > diagnostic message to the user, prefereably a useful one. > > That's kind of difficult, since memory is consumed in a lot of places > which are not necessarily under Scribus's control (most notably Qt).
While I understand the concerns, and we do have plans to reduce memory consumption in the future, Andreas is completely correct and Its also fairly reasonable to expect someone to have a reasonable spec machine for the job at hand. At worst you can up your virtual memory which should solve this. At best, throw more ram in the machine. Craig
