And please be sure to file a bug/feature request at http://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/
In the end there will obviously always be cases where Inkscape is too slow, but Inkscape could most definitely be faster in some cases. And just locking/unlocking the layer should (from an intuitive standpoint) NOT cause such a big pause.
Dave M G wrote:
Donn,
Thank you for responding.
I have long moaned that "Nodes mean slow" :( I have a fast machine and 2gigs of RAM. It makes no difference. I think it's all the looping through those long lists of nodes....
You are doomed. Unless you can simplify or chop-up your comic page into frames and assemble them later in Gimp.
Okay. While it's a little disappointing that there isn't a way to optimize the file for better performance, it's good to know that at least I'm not doing something wrong.
I'll export the paths into a PNG and handle the colouring in Photoshop or GIMP. It means committing to rasterizing the images sooner in my process than I had hoped, but hey, life is full of compromises.