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.
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)