Hi to all,
I use inkscape and I am happy of it.
I am writing here because I realized export bitmap function is too slow in particular when there are some object with blur option sets high.
If I save the drawing in plain SVG and import it with gimp it take just few seconds instead many tents of minutes.
I hope this help you to grab from gimp a more efficient algorithm which may be used to rendere the draw too which, with blurred object, is very low too.
However I see that inkscape rendering is slight better than gimp's one but in many low-res application and in show-and-try-again or in view rendering such excellence are not required and takes too much time.
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Cheers, -- /roberto