I'm a longtime user of Scribus, having hung on through some very crashy versions. The primary usability problem (one might even call it a bug) is the speed. I'll put up with a lot, and I've been generally happy with Scribus' progress, but I have to ask:
1. Is there a structural reason for the slowness (i.e. XML)? I've seen a lot of questions about this problem, but the developers never seem to address it. 2. Have any other users found workarounds that make things faster/usable? I keep most of my vector layers on "outline" mode, set all my images to lowest possible resolution, but this doesn't seem to do much. I work on documents of 25-50 pages, and I've even tried breaking the files up, but then keeping styles and formatting changes consistent between the parts became burdensome - and things were still slow. Its embarrassing to realize that I keep Scribus on its own desktop and use the CPU monitor to know when its done with something. Thanks, Severn Clay-Youman PS: I'm using Scribus 1.3.7 (from SVN) on 64-bit Ubuntu -- Severn Clay-Youman, LEED GA Studio Les B?tes 33 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY www.lesbetes.com blog: http://lesbetes.wordpress.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100721/87be97a8/attachment.htm>
