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Title: Scribus at full speed !
Post by: omoro on January 28, 2026, 03:00:00 PM
Hello everybody.

I'm just sharing a trick in this post.
I'm working on an Art Book with around 200 pages and many pictures.
The pics are, of course, hi-res for correct printing.

Half way along the process, Scribus was slowing down when inserting new pictures and also on other operations. Very annoying.

I found a simple solution :
- Create a copy of all the pictures in lo-res (30% Jpeg) but same size and, very important, the exact same name.
- Move all hi-res pics actually used in another directory
- Replace the by the lo-res pic (and do not bother with the warnings)
- Continue the creation of the book at full speed
- When the book is finished, move back the hi-res in the Scribus directory
- Verify that the warnings are gone (re-import if not)
- Ready to export to PDF and print

That's it, very simple and effective.
Title: Re: Scribus at full speed !
Post by: a.l.e on January 29, 2026, 10:34:42 AM
Yes, nice to see this documented in this way.

You can probably also do the same and, instead of moving around the images, just rename the folder and add add _low or _high to the one which is currently inactive (you should probably close the document before renaming the folders)