Axel Bojer skrev: > 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. (...) > Here are some issues I found: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(...snip a lot of errors, see former post or the shortened list at the end of this post) > 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 ... I have tried the import page-function, but the links are no tkept, which makes it cumbersome, pratically nearly impossible, to change the text afterwards. I also tried to copy the content of one frame over to the other, but then the stylees are not kept. The only thing working is: * Keep only the first frame (unlik between the first frame and the second) * Send to clip board * Paste somewhere else Of course I then have to redo my linking, too, but at least I don't have several unlinked frames with parts of the same text in it. Concerning the lack of performance: I have (through literally *days) reworked the whole 150 page document the following way: All articles are kept as seperat chained links. That means not in one unbroken chain all the way thrpugh the 150 pages, but perhaps the first then (article 1), then the next 12 (article 2) etc. I have also split it in two part, one 100 pages long, the other 50 pages long. This has improved the speed so radically that I want to make this a tip for other struggling with the same problem. Before I could have to wait half an hour or more just for the document to open, now it opens in 5 minutes (still not lightning fast, but usable). When the text in a linked frame is smaller the Story editor also works normal--normally no delay, with some exceptions: * Applying styles can still take 1--5 minutes to finish (depending on the length of the applied paragraph I think) * Copy and pasting of even short text part into a frame chain with much text in it already also takes about 2--5 minutes to complete. In empty frames or frame chains with little content in them, this works without delay. This is still not ideally, but with this method I can live with it and do my work, some waiting is still necessary, and big style changes or copying/pasting many times is unpractical still. I you use OpenOffice.org to do the styling and import the finished document, this should not be an issue though. It could even be faster to rework the changes in OOo and then import anew. Of course manual cerning or other tweaks will still have to be redone, but this is fast enough to do to be manageable. Sadly the import function for OOo is not perfect either, so some formatting may be lost, I discoverd italics disappearing at least. And the styles may be diversed (not all text snippets may keep their style, even if you choose not to merge styles). But mostly this works. When I have all my present delayed work finished I may make a wikipage on the use of big documents (or someone else may use this as a starter for one). I think I have the main things covered here now :-) And hopefully most, or all, og these bugs will be fixed in 1.3.4, I am waiting eagerly for a production version of it to appear, maybe later this year? Relevant bug reports: --------------------- 0005186: Copying text should keep styles http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=5186 0005185: Copying frames unlink them http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=5185 0005191: Make it possible to split and join frame with their content http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=5191 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 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). 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 Best regards Axel Boje
