On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Cindy Lantier <cindy at lantier.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > I tried to load both images. The smaller image loads fine; the larger image > crashed Scribus three times. I took it into an image editing program and > reduced the size (so that it was the same size as the one that does load) > and it worked great. > > I'm running Scribus 1.4.0.rc4 on Windows 7 -- an AMD Athlon II X2 250 (3.00 > GHz) with 4 gigs of ram. > > Hope that helped someone! > > Cindy > > > -----Original Message----- > From: a.l.e [mailto:ale.comp_06 at xox.ch] > Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 3:05 PM > To: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Subject: Re: [scribus] getting tiffs > > hi > > > still trying to solve the tiff prob...all tiffs i am using are 24 > > bit, no variation. Have uploaded some sample tiffs at: > > http://www.filesonic.com/file/1145226294/will_load.tif > > http://www.filesonic.com/file/1145226334/wont_load_(1).tif Hopefully > > will be useful!! Thanks > > the image loads correctly here... > > not too much RAM (well, enough of it, but not so much), not a fast CPU > either... > > but, well, some sort of linux and a distribution + window manager which > leave all the process power for the applications needing it. > (ok, i have admit that i was looking a film in a flash application and gimp > was also open...) > > we have had some issues with people failing to load big images in > windows... > i wonder if scribus has a problem there... > > ... or if it would be easier if people started to switch to linux because > it's simply better... at least for loading big images into scribus... > > > can anybody using windows also try to load the image? > > and, you, do you really need such a big image? > > ciao > a.l.e > > This is to be expected, I believe, but I was able to load the huge image onto a Scribus page, export the page to a pdf, and print the pdf on my local printer. Mind you, it took a while for the huge image to load into the selection dialog box that displays the image before selecting and a fair about of time to load into the image frame. However, at no time did my machine OS (Ubuntu 11.04) ever crash. Meanwhile I had a ton of stuff open at the same time. I have only 3GB of RAM. Sounds as if the Windoze paging file runs out of space whereas Linux uses different algorithm for paging beyond RAM capability. I cannot find a problem with the file albeit, I cannot imagine a need for such a large image file. -- John Ghormley KJ4UFG Editor, SERA *Repeater Journal* Walkertown, NC USA editor at sera.org PS. It took longer to download the files from the crappy file sharing location than it did to produce the printed pdf! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110606/e486e668/attachment.html>
