Axel Bojer wrote: > Axel Bojer skrev: > >> Hello! >> >> I am currently struggeling with a book theh I am trying to set up nicely >> with Scribus. After having made the switch to Scribus for Broschures and >> a magazine I am now experiencing all kinds of drawbacks with the book >> I am working on. In the hope of getting some good tips I am now making >> this summary. Perhaps it could be used in the online manual or as a >> separate tip page, I have not seen one that goes in depth about this. At >> least it would be welcomed if users experiencing--or working--with other >> big documents in Scribus could share their experiences. >> >> I am aware of some bug reports (of wich I can not remember the numbers) >> that adresses some of, or all, the problems I am mentioning. >> > > Here are some issues I found: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > 0002438: Metabug: Cases of extreme memory use > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=2438 > > 0004076: large document takes several minutes to load > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4076 > > 0004328: Severe slowdown in paragraph styles if preview is activated > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4328 > > 0004024: Get Image Preview too slow for production machines, for > magazine/publication etc - doesn't handle big tiffs well > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4024 > > 0004835: color list on property palette is updated very often > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4835 > (Slows Scribus down. That means it might help to remove all unused colours). > > 0004575: Style Manager: Preview tabs > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4575 > (Suggestion for a speed improvment of the style manager) > > 0004513: 100% cpu usage while aligning the text > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4513 > (Probably not fixable before 1.3.4. Also mentioned is the slowness of > updating when changing the text style) > > 0001036: Severe performance problem on documents with very large number > of linked frames > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1036 > > > It seems like many (or all?) of these problems will be adresse, perhaps > even resolved with the coming of the new text system in 1.3.4. Until > then, working on big documents with Scribus seems not be be very good > *sigh* I do not want to go back to Windows and to Pagemaker, and doing > so would render much work already done seemingly useless, so, I will try > to force my way through :-/ > > Is there an easy way to collect two or more finished documents into one? > Hopefully without having to edit the resulting file afterwards :-) > If yes I may give it a try ... > There are ways of combining PDFs to one, with outside software. There is also Page > Import from the menu bar in Scribus.
Making a large document or book with Scribus requires a certain mindset, keeping in mind that Scribus is a layout program, so you are doing layout on a lot of pages. It only seems logical to break up a large work into smaller tasks -- chapters, sections, whatever is useful. If you were working on a multiauthored text that is surely how it would be done. It would also allow for using different tools for different parts. My wife does some wordprocessing, and I have the hardest time getting her to understand why she should use page breaks in the middle of a document, instead of using carriage returns to make the next part go to a new page. Then she gets frustrated with edits in the middle messing up the page breaks! Greg
