On 19/01/2012 16:36, a.l.e wrote: > hi jeam. > >> I'm on magazine deadline for tomorrow and am now in a situation where >> the mag is almost complete, >> but performance is considerably diminished. I've got 48 pages with at >> least 1 image per page. My sla file is 800k. >> >> I CAN continue working on it as is, but I think what I'd like to do >> is split the magazine into sections - >> one file for each section. >> >> I see a move and copy pages option, but not one to move it to a new >> file. > would be nice to have: split this file... not hard to program... but > somebody has to do it :-) > > in the meantime you can import pages for another document. > > so: > - create a new file > - import the pages from the original file > - delete the pages from the original file > > an alternative, even more simple and even more brute force: > - duplicate the file in a file manager (finder, explorer, shell) > - remove en each copy of the file the pages that should be in the other > one. > > hth > a.l.e > Thanks a.l.e - Peter suggested the same last alternative. I didn't end up splitting it though - restarted the computer and it seems far more responsive now.
BTW - side note - Does any other Ubuntu user here find Ubuntu quite sluggish? I might return to Windows 7, but this time I'll take Scribus with me :-)
