Maybe my computer is slow, but it is really-really s l o w ;)
anyway, is there any cache mechanism to redisplay draw? It is seem no, because (in KDE) when inkscape move to top of the windows again, it seems redraws svg from scratch.
dashed lines: I realized, that you think of inkscape as an application suited for draws. But, this is not the case ;)
Vector drawing apps are very good (better then page layout apps, like Quark/PageMaker/Scribus) at small documents: invitations, certificates, menus (in restaurant).
These docs need full power of drawing capabilities and typographic tools too. (this is why I'am enforcing better text tools and multi page possibilies)
And of course these docs use lots of rectangles with fine dashed borders. :)
Regards, Aewyn
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 06:56, bulia byak wrote:
- just draw one rectange
- change stroke paint to any color
- change stroke style dashes to the first dash style
(dotted, or anything)
- change stroke style width 0.5 or below
And now, try to zoom to it.
In my machine (1.2GHz Tua) it takes seconds. And it is only one (!) rectangle. :(
Please say some promising.
I don't know what to say. Of course displaying dashes is slower than solid stroke. But not by much. And certainly not seconds. Maybe a fraction of a second to zoom to 25600% and back.
Where it DOES take seconds is if you use one of the LAST dash patterns in the list, not the first one. For example 0.01 0.01 really puts it under stress. But that is to be expected because it draws a hundred of dashes per each stroke width. Probably this can be displayed faster, but I don't see this as a problem because these dash patterns are not very practical anyway. They're there mostly for fun :)