Hi, Thanks very much for looking into this further. I re-emerged inkscape and tried loading the file again but, I'm afraid, gave up after 12 minutes or so.
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Your file did eventually load, although I think it may have taken as
much as half an hour to do so on my machine.
Wow, it was under 2 minutes on mine :) (I'm speaking about 1236745up.svg, is this what you tried?)
Yep. I was also starting to swap a bit towards the end, which may have contributed.
Mine didn't get to the point of swapping, instead (watching top) I see that it rapidly uses up 55.5% or so of memory and then stops using any more (at least until I killed it). What machines you are running on? Mine is a 1700MHz Pentium M, 512Mb ram.
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Just FYI, Batik ran out of memory on that document, and Adobe never loaded it either (maybe it would if I waited long enough, but I doubt that). So Inkscape was the only software capable of loading and even editing it.
Yes, Batik failed for me as well. I didn't have Adobe handy.
w.r.t singly-linked-lists, does Sodipodi store these structures differently? Sodipodi opens this file in about 30 seconds on my machine. However, both sodipodi and my colleague's copy of Adobe, which also loads the file, seem to chop off the image (which is very wide) at its left and right extents - so perhaps they don't really load the whole file.
Perhaps I'm just asking too much & should make my files smaller? Thanks again, gav.
P.S. Incidentally, Adobe has a nice feature - a progress bar while it's loading...
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