An employee of mine has been using Scribus - later than 1.3.X on FreeBSD with GUI on bith 32 bit and 64 bit hardware. He also has noticed significantly better performance than on GNU/Linux and on Windows systems. I suspect the high performance file system used has some effect.
Wendell Anderson wanderson at kimalcorp.org ===================================== Steven Dayton wrote: > Thanks for the info. That gives me something more to look into. The more > info on options the better. > > > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Michal Blazejczyk < > blazej at zeszytykomiksowe.org> wrote: > > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Something positive to throw out there: for a couple of months now >> I've been heavily using Scribus (1.3.3.12) on a 64-bit edition of >> Windows XP, and it works like a breeze. Previously I'd used >> Scribus on Ubuntu, but the program was very slow, especially when >> refreshing the screen. Then (about a year ago) I'd switched to >> regular WinXP where the lags were less of an issue. But now, >> with the 64-bit Windows, Scribus really rocks. Screen refresh >> is nearly seamless, even with larger documents, and PDF generation >> is also a good few times faster than on an x86 version of Windows >> (and my documents use *lots* of images). >> >> BTW, this could be due to the 64-bit edition of GhostScript (8.64). >> >> And btw, it's a dual core, 2.4 GHz system, HP EliteBook, 4GB or RAM. >> >> So anyway, I recommend a 64-bit system to everyone using Scribus >> heavily :-) >> >> Best, >> Michal Blazejczyk >> www.zeszytykomiksowe.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> scribus mailing list >> scribus at lists.scribus.info >> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20090504/43d67590/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > >
