Re: [Inkscape-user] Alternative to Inkscape for Windows 7

On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 17:53:06 +1000, Geoffrey said: Hi Geoffrey, Did you load it under Inkscape or something else? If Inkscape, which version? The thread is a little hard to follow, with different people discussing different products. =*=*=*=*=*=*= You know what bothers me about this thread? The initial question (not posed by Geoffrey) was not "how do I get my graphic to edit acceptably with Inkscape x.x under Windows 7, 64bit, 8GB RAM", or even "how can I edit my SVG with acceptable speed", but instead, asking for an Inscape-like program that (my words) "works". Let's just say that's not how *I* approach a project's mailing list with my first-ever post. It's hostile, and implies an agenda not aligned with Inkscape. If the original poster doesn't like Inkscape, let him find his own damn vector editor. We don't owe him him the time to guide him to the editor of his dreams. Geoffrey has loaded the SVG (I presume in Inkscape) and reproduced the slowness on Linux. If the original poster had asked his question in a less insulting manner, right now I might be editing the SVG down to the smallest possible example to reproduce the issue, and then we'd find the component making Inkscape "slow", and fixing it might be just a simple profiling. Too bad the original poster didn't do that. Perhaps that wasn't his agenda. Also not known, as far as I can read from this long, long thread about Inscape alternatives, is whether the original SVG was created entirely in Inkscape. Perhaps it's possible that the SVG displaying this slowness with Inkscape was actually written by a different program, one outputting bad, but recognizeable SVG, and Inscape takes a lot of time to figure out what is meant by the bad SVG. Did the original even bother to use "Vacuum Defs"? We don't know, but a Claws-Mail search found no instances of "vacuum" in this thread. My recommendation would be to take the silver lining out of this thread's horizon to horizon black shelf clouds, and use this guy's SVG to determine exactly *what* component(s) result in Inkscape slowness, and if appropriate speed up that specific part of Inkscape. As far as guiding the original poster to his dream editor -- that's his job, not ours. Last but not least, here's a document the original poster should read and then follow: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Thanks SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ * http://twitter.com/stevelitt Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance