> On 15 May 2017, at 17:28, ZASKE Martin <zm at revue-gugu.org> wrote: > > Dear Craig, > > thank you for helping with this. I wrote that our document will have > 200+ pages. You wrote to remove some 196 pages in the middle. > > The team is still proof-reading the last chapters while I prepare the > layout. So far, our document in Scribus has got 304 pages. Once I have > the final text, I can insert the illustrations for the chapters after > chapter 1. So far chapter 1 with illustrations and all the draft-text is > running as far as page 87. So pages 88 to 304 are still empty but needed > for the coming illustrations which will make the text flow further back. > > Once I know how many pages we will really need, I will delete the rest > and will end up with some 200+. Is that a bad approach? Is there a limit > of pages? > > Scribus got somewhat slower when I filled 87 pages with text and > illustrations but seems stable in itself. Our chapters are huge, the > book only got an intro plus three long chapters and I had hoped to keep > the entire book in one file, because the text will still be fine-tuned > until a few days before printing (first time for us to do such an > extensive translation from Swedish). > > > > For your test, I left the master pages and the first two pages and the > last two pages. All other pages > > <PAGE PAGEXPOS="519.528188976378" ... NUM="2" ... > NUM="303" ... Di="0"/> > I deleted. > > But you realize that there are already text-frames and illustration > frames on each page? And many of those already have content in them. > > When I deleted all those pages "from the middle", Scribus will no longer > open the document, it just crashes (closes) without any error message. > > Do I need to manually delete all content from the "middle pages" and how > would I do that for some 300 pages? If you are telling me this is what I > need to do, I will find a way. > > > When I run Scribus from the Windows command line, like this > C:\Program Files\Scribus 1.5.3.svn>Scribus.exe > then I get no useful information either, sorry. It also crashes but no > messages in the cmd window. > > > What is the next step please? > > Martin > >
Hi Martin This is just to reduce the file size a little for testing by us. Don't edit the file in a text editor. Just open the copy SLA in Scribus and delete the pages using the Page Delete menu item. If there?s 200 pages, then delete using that item from page 3-197. Save the file. If it crashes when exporting to PDF, send us the PDF and the SLA file. If it doesn?t crash, try and delete a few less pages, e.g. 100. Try exporting again. Craig
