Leander Sukov wrote: > That is unfortunate with scribus: It is slow, no - it is as fast as dead > turtle, when it has to work with more than just a few pages.
It doesn't seem that bad here. The longest doc I've done was a 61 page report, mixed text and graphics. >We are still > using an old pagemaker (6.5) on a window computer (the only one remaining) to > do the layout for books. We've switched from pagemaker 6.51 and indesign 1.5 to Scribus because Scribus is more stable. > We would love to do all layouts with scribus, but due to the speed we can't. What spec machine are you using ? We're on a 2.4GHz core duo CPU with 4 gig of RAM. > It is also not possible to split books into different documents, because you > loose a lot of control on orphan, widows etc. It's certainly not convenient anyway ! How many pages do your stories cover ? I tend to keep the stories short, only a few pages, but the full document may be quite large, and we don't seem to have significant speed problems. Cheers, J/. -- John Beardmore, MSc EDM (Open), B.A. Chem (Oxon), CMIOSH, AIEMA, MEI Managing Director, T4 Sustainability Limited. http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/ Energy Audit, Carbon Management, Design Advice, Sustainable Energy Consultancy and Installation, Carbon Trust Standard Registered Assessor Phone: 0845 4561332 Mobile: 07785 563116 Skype: t4sustainability
