Hi, Disclaimer: not a Mac user and I don't have any seriously big Illustrator EPS files at the moment ;-(
?ann mi? 1.n?v 2017 08:26, skrifa?i ale rimoldi: > hi john > >> How much memory does Scribus need on the Mac platform and can it >> import Illustrator eps files to pages? > > it's very likely that the amount of the memory depends on the size of > the eps to be imported. There's a nice explanation on OSX memory management in this thread: <https://superuser.com/questions/885586/mac-os-x-using-over-4-gb-of-memory-with-nothing-running> OSX uses advanced compression techniques for memory, and keeps a bunch of items in 'inactive' RAM, so real 'free memory' is a bit difficult to assess. > i guess that the limit is not memory used for the import, but the > memory needed to manage lot of complex shapes inside of scribus after > you have imported the eps... My experience is that Scribus itself is dieting on my memory (total 32GB RAM in Linux); importing an 32MB EPS into an image-frame and rotating it, eats away meager 124MB of my RAM. This is fairly consistent with a "rule of thumbs" I read about somewhere: that many graphics applications need a triple of *uncompressed* data to work well; one 'active' copy, one in undo-buffer and one on disk. Don't take my words for an explanation of this though. Since I'm using an SSD, my swap-memory is not on a disk, but in RAM. I've rarely used EPS-files bigger than 500MB in Scribus, quite possibly the application will grind into slow-motion at some point with such big files. But as ale said; the number and complexities of shapes, plus the number and complexities of operations done on them, will certainly jack up the memory usage. Just importing/resizing into a frame shouldn't be a big deal. Would be interesting though to see some numbers on this (htop) for Mac OSX... Best regards, Sveinn ? Felli > all in all: have you tried? > did anything fail? > > ciao > a.l.e > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net >
