On 4/4/07, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...226...> wrote:
Bill Baxter wrote:
... Is there a way to hide everything but the current selection? Or to use outline rendering for everything but the current selection? I was playing around with editing the about.svg splash screen and with all the blurring going on rendering was very slow when zoomed in. Outline mode fixed the speed, but then it's hard to tell what the current thing I'm editing really looks like. Anyway more flexible control over the rendering quality seems like it would be useful. An intermediate between outline and full would be nice too. It would basically turn off expensive effects like blur and just do a simple color rendering.
Have you tried setting the filter quality lower? (It's in the Inkscape preferences.) That should help, it doesn't turn blur off, but it does make it considerably less expensive.
No I haven't, but Florian replied earlier in the thread that it didn't make much difference even on the lowest quality setting. Anyway it's really something that should be handled on a situation by situation basis whereas app preferences are for modifying global behavior. If you have to change an app preference based on the document you're looking at then I think it indicates a UI problem.
Anyway, I'm just starting out using and inkscape, and I'm not even an artist so realistically this is not an issue for me. I was just suspecting that this was something that probably a lot of artists would want. I guess if an artist is making lots of heavyweight blurs the thing to do now is try to put those on separate layers and toggle visibility per layer. But that's probably easier said than done when a main use for blur is faking lighting and material properties -- meaning lots of composited layers. Not so easy to segregate the heavy parts out.
--bb