Nicol?s Carranza wrote: > Gregory Pittman wrote: > >> Nicol?s Carranza wrote: >> >> >>> I'm using scribus to do annotations on PDF documents. I import all the >>> PDF pages in image frames. I see that scribus caches in memory all the >>> images contained in an entire document and makes "imposible" to edit >>> documents with lots of images (40 (1800x2775) images take about 800MB of >>> memory for a 40 pages PDF). Anybody knows if there are plans to do a >>> more intelligent caching of images or image frame behavior (only caching >>> the images that are shown or its neighboring pages) so that we can use >>> scribus in documents with hundreds of high-res images? >>> >>> >>> >> Try going to File > Document Setup > Tools, and clicking on the icon for >> image frame specs. Reduce the On Screen Preview image quality to low >> resolution. >> By doing this with a 60-image file in Scribus (these were jpegs), I was >> able to reduce memory usage by about 200MB. >> I don't know what version you are using, mine was 1.3.3.8cvs. >> >> Greg >> _______________________________________________ >> Scribus mailing list >> Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >> http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> >> >> > Hi Greg. Thanks for the tip, using "low resolution preview" the memory > consumption was reduced from ~750MB to ~250MB on my 40 pages scribus > doc. (Scribus 1.3.3.6).. > But... I really think that scribus needs better image handling (caching) > so that I can see the images in its full resolution because I need to > do annotations about those images as an end product. Anyway 250MB for 40 > pages are a lot because the complete PDF is ~400 pages and that would > make ~2500MB of cached low-res images; I split it in 10 pieces to make > it workable. This sounds like a request enhancement, maybe this list is > not for request enhancements but there it was. > I agree. After I sent the previous note, I tried making a PDF from a file with about 80 images and Scribus crashed, I think from the memory issue. I'm using a machine with about 500mg RAM and 1GB of swap - apparently not enough. In contrast, Adobe Reader uses a whole lot less memory to load a file with 60 images.
Greg
