Hi Murray, first I have to admit that I never experienced any of those problems except a performance issue working on "large" documents (>20p.) yet, and I am working on a 867MHz PPC laptop. That said, I always used the stable releases, and that is what the scribus developers always tell you to do in production. It seams strange that a svn snapshot is packaged in a distribution. So maybe you should contact the package maintainer directly, who is the only one who knows what code you are working with (svn means that your code is from a development repository, but we do not know at which time it was taken).
About the pdf output, it is generated to meet industry standards and give trouble-free print-outs in a professional environment. This is very different from producing slim pdfs for the web. So take it as a feature, there are many ways to get smaller, but potentially incompatible pdfs out of scribus if needed. CU Lars. -- Dipl.-Ing. Architekt / Y. Mimar Lars O. Grobe Susam Sk. 11/1, Cihangir, ?stanbul, T?rkiye grobe at gmx.net www.larsgrobe.de +90-535-8579960
