FWIW, I just dropped an SVG image in a Scribus page which had over 800,000 line segments. It didn't seem to work on my older home system or laptop (512MiB and 1024GiB respectively -- it was paging heavily), but when I ran it on a bigger system the process image (virtual and resident) zoomed up to 3.5 GiB and the results came out fine. The 9+MB PDF file took a while to print, but all's well.... BTW, this was some GIS derived data which I didn't want to have to trim, so I'm happy Scribus could deal with it in its full glory.
-- Randolph Bentson bentson at holmsjoen.com
