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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0007382ScribusImport / Exportpublic2009-01-02 22:13
ReporterMike Assigned Tojghali  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionno change required 
PlatformLinuxOSUbuntuOS Version8.04
Product Version1.3.5svn 
Summary0007382: very slow pdf export of pages with equations
Descriptionvery slow pdf export of pages with equations
Steps To Reproducecreate 4 equations on page, copy page 10 times, export like pdf
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child of 0007647 acknowledgedHerm Metabug: Render Frames (LaTeX, GnuPlot, LilyPond, GraphViz, etc.) 

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ale

2008-09-11 18:05

manager   ~0020239

could you please upload a .sla wich shows the problem?

2008-09-12 09:12

 

PDFexportEquation.sla (139,306 bytes)

Mike

2008-09-12 09:34

reporter   ~0020242

The file was uploaded. Export takes 11 minutes (Processor Sempron 2800+). Thanks.

PS: I think that it is one of the downside of Latex equations. It must export each equation and then whole pdf...
PS2: Scribus as compared with OpenOffice has very slow and ungainly equations. I am not sure that creating of pdfs is the best solution in this but then addition of equations (graphs,..) is enormous advancement of new version of Scribus. :-)

Mike

jghali

2008-12-10 22:55

administrator   ~0020759

Last edited: 2008-12-10 23:11

Podofo enabled builds have an experimental feature which allows to directly embed intermediate pdf content in pdf output file. Exporting the attached sample file is then just a matter of seconds.

Herm

2008-12-27 16:57

reporter   ~0020846

Using Latex for typesetting equations was choosen because it produces better quality than any other system.
Export is slow because the pdf gets rasterized first. You probably have set a high resoultion for rasterizing. As jghali told you with the new pdf emdedding support this should get much faster and the equations are also kept as vector data.

I don't think rasterization speed can be improved much as this is done by ghostscript.

jghali

2009-01-02 22:13

administrator   ~0020861

Resolving as no change required as this is not an issue with podofo enabled builds + we can't do much if podofo is not enabled.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2008-09-11 15:26 Mike New Issue
2008-09-11 18:05 ale Note Added: 0020239
2008-09-12 09:12 Mike File Added: PDFexportEquation.sla
2008-09-12 09:34 Mike Note Added: 0020242
2008-12-10 16:32 mhanski Relationship added child of 0007647
2008-12-10 16:32 mhanski Relationship added parent of 0007427
2008-12-10 16:32 mhanski Relationship deleted parent of 0007427
2008-12-10 22:55 jghali Note Added: 0020759
2008-12-10 23:11 jghali Note Edited: 0020759
2008-12-27 16:57 Herm Note Added: 0020846
2009-01-02 22:13 jghali Note Added: 0020861
2009-01-02 22:13 jghali Status new => resolved
2009-01-02 22:13 jghali Resolution open => no change required
2009-01-02 22:13 jghali Assigned To => jghali
2009-01-02 22:13 jghali Status resolved => closed