On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 21:54 -0500, Benjamin Orchard wrote:
I have also checked that the computers in question will export other files, and they do that just fine.
Important question: are the other files this large and complex?
I even tried opening said file in GIMP (which will open svgs), but this crashed the GIMP!
I suspect the problem is not that file, but that Inkscape and the GIMP are crashing because you do not have enough memory to export a file that large and complex and they are running out of it.
A 7200x7200 truecolor bitmapped image _alone_ requires almost 200MB; double or triple that for intermediate buffers, and then you need to account for the overhead of representing the SVG tree itself (which could run to several hundred megabytes, given 7MB of XML nodes, especially if there a number of clones -- and therefore shadow trees).
(To confirm this, try watching a graph of memory usage while you try to export the file.)
I would recommend trying inkscape from the commandline to export the image, rather than going through the GUI. That should require a little less memory, but it's no guarantee.
-mental