Scribus at full speed !

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omoro

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.

a.l.e

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)

dragonfly

This post of mine fits under the heading Scribus at full speed!
I like tricks. Workarounds. You might accomodate that using two runs of Scribus Generator. One for light load and then another for full load. All in two csv's. Pointing to different image vaults. At a guess from memory. There are other ways I have found.

I tend to hop into this forum with years apart.

Here was my last touchdown.

https://forums.scribus.net/index.php/topic,3770.msg17851.html#msg17851

Today I am researching with AI backends and I have a workflow which can interface with Scribus, including Scribus Generator.

Since as an octogenarian developer I am rusty in driving the Scribus properties I am willing to exchange ideas in a sandbox with a collaborator .

I use Ubuntu but I can dual boot into Windows. The aim is to make the Scribus interface (which is daunting) easy to use even by a newbie.  Remote coaching. Using AI backend. That is demonstrable today but I don't use github yet. I use a zerotrust vault. I should point out at  that my dominant usage is on Ubuntu (for reasons which will become evident) but the ideas can later be applied to other OS workflows ahead. The Scribus UI autopopulated.
Any disruptors here? Watching their Scribus sandbox being populated while having a cop of coffee?  That is my goal.