I'm creating a magazine - 24 pages total, with a fair number of images.
I'll be working along, inserting images, saving my file very regularly. And then suddenly some images will be gone, and in the frame where they were is the filename instead of the image. If I save the Scribus file to a new name and reopen the previously saved version, the images are gone there, too. Since it gives me the filenames, they are easy to reload - and when I do that, they are already scaled and sized correctly, I don't need to "adjust image to frame."
If I try to export to a pdf from the file with missing images, it tells me they are missing - so they are really not there, it's not as if I somehow made them invisible. Not all images in the file disappear, just a few will disappear (different ones at different times, though).
What is going on here?
I also noticed that my .sla file is around 340K, with around 13 pages completed. When I save it to .pdf, that file is 27 megs.
So does Scribus actually only save pointers to images, not integrating the image into the file itself? That would explain why the file is so small. But if that is the case, it would suggest that if I move or rename an underlying image file - or delete it - my Scribus document will no longer be able to find it.
Why would my images suddenly disappear when I wasn't even working on them? Sometimes it is images from a previous page that I haven't touched in hours.
I'm using Scribus 1.4.6 on OSX, and this is my first time using the software, so I have lots to learn.
Thanks for any enlightenment anyone can provide!
Joy