So, for weeks the team has been working on some 40 two-page documents into which the Yearbook to be was seperated.
I had two reasons for seperating the 80 page document:
- Damage control. If something goes really bad, then it's not with the full document.
- Performance. I wasn't sure how Scribus would hold on a image heavy 80 page document
Last week I've started merging all facing pages into the one single document.
I must say that this went without a single issue.
- I created a new folder at the same level as all folders for the seperated facing pages
- There I created a new all-in-one scribus document
- Next, I copied all objects from the original documents into the all-in-one
- Nothing broke, including the many external images (thanks to the relative path references)
- I adapted the master pages to include a background image
- And, O wonder! With 80 image heavy pages, Scribus is performing quite smoothly!
- My decision to switch from the utterly sluggish MS Publisher to Scribus was a good one