I'm not sure I can fully explain the chronology of how I "achieved" that effect (ha!). There is no good reason for it on my end. It is an artifact of working with OpenOffice Draw, a friend of mine using Illustrator (he did all of the bitmap tracing and exported an SVG for each of these strange shapes I am working with), and Inkscape.

Can you tell me how to determine the # of paths in an SVG with Inkscape? If I know how to do that I can examine the SVGs he sent me and see if they are the problem. If they're fine, then the problem was some clueless butchery on my end and I will try again.

Jeff

----- Original Message ---- From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> To: Inkscape User Community inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:46:42 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] PC crawling due to apparent complexity -- need tips

On 4/12/07, Charles Blaine <kickslop@...12...> wrote:

http://www.kickflop.net/temp/inkscape-tiles-problem.svg

Wow. Your originals look simple but are anything but. They have stroke converted to path and then broken into microscopic segments, each being a separate path. So one of the originals for example consists of 547 paths!

I'm just curious, how you achieved this effect, and what for?

Then, you're saying you're cloning them. But there are no clones in your image. Each object is just a copy. So you have 547 paths multiplied by the number of these copies in the circle.

No wonder your file is 5Mb and Inkscape is getting slow on it :)