Inkscape performance issues
Hello,
I am trying to use Inkscape 0.44 to design basic graphics for websites (think content boxes, buttons, titles and so on) and to get highlight and shadow borders around them I make use of linked offsets, which I find very useful especially when I need to adjust the basic shape (from which the linked offsets are made) later on.
Unfortunately, using linked offsets seems to have a very detrimental effect on performance, in my example file [1], I have just a few content boxes and a single button with a small icon on it, yet certain basic actions like creating a new shape, hiding/unhiding/moving layers or shape adjustments are starting to take a lot of time.
On my desktop machine, which has an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU, hiding the "Buttons" layer causes Inkscape to use 100% CPU and become unresponsive for a good 8 seconds.
Considering that I need many more buttons and boxes and thus vastly increasing the amount of linked offsets, I am wondering wether there are other ways of creating buttons and boxes like these without linked offsets while retaining the same kind of flexibility or if there is some other way I can work like this but with better performance.
Any suggestions (even alternatives to Inkscape that may be better suited for this) are welcome.
On 7/8/06, Hans Nieser <h.nieser@...861...> wrote:
Unfortunately, using linked offsets seems to have a very detrimental effect on performance,
Yes, the problems with the performance of linked offsets are known. Still, it's not in the bug tracker yet I believe, so if you could submit a report with your sample file it would be helpful.
have you tried with xara? http://www.xaraxtreme.org/ I don´t know if it has all the features you need but maybe you can work with it.
Hans Nieser <h.nieser@...861...> escribió: Hello,
I am trying to use Inkscape 0.44 to design basic graphics for websites (think content boxes, buttons, titles and so on) and to get highlight and shadow borders around them I make use of linked offsets, which I find very useful especially when I need to adjust the basic shape (from which the linked offsets are made) later on.
Unfortunately, using linked offsets seems to have a very detrimental effect on performance, in my example file [1], I have just a few content boxes and a single button with a small icon on it, yet certain basic actions like creating a new shape, hiding/unhiding/moving layers or shape adjustments are starting to take a lot of time.
On my desktop machine, which has an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU, hiding the "Buttons" layer causes Inkscape to use 100% CPU and become unresponsive for a good 8 seconds.
Considering that I need many more buttons and boxes and thus vastly increasing the amount of linked offsets, I am wondering wether there are other ways of creating buttons and boxes like these without linked offsets while retaining the same kind of flexibility or if there is some other way I can work like this but with better performance.
Any suggestions (even alternatives to Inkscape that may be better suited for this) are welcome.
[1] http://www.aphax.nl/images/inkscape/webdev.svg
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Hans Nieser wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to use Inkscape 0.44 to design basic graphics for websites (think content boxes, buttons, titles and so on) and to get highlight and shadow borders around them I make use of linked offsets, which I find very useful especially when I need to adjust the basic shape (from which the linked offsets are made) later on.
I do believe that the Linux version of Xara can do all you wish. Download the .package version and see how you like it:
www.xaraxtreme.org/download/
Run the movies to see just what this puppy can do:
http://downloads.xara.com/products/xtreme/movies/intro1.avi
and
http://downloads.xara.com/products/xtreme/movies/intro2.avi
The intro2 shows how to make buttons like no other program I know, even the high priced spreads. It's so fast and easy to use that is a show-stopper.
frank
yes, xara is very fine. but it supports only xara file format and jpg + png - thats pitty :-/
greetings markus
On 7/8/06, frank gaude' <tanzen@...777...> wrote:
Hans Nieser wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to use Inkscape 0.44 to design basic graphics for websites (think content boxes, buttons, titles and so on) and to get highlight
and
shadow borders around them I make use of linked offsets, which I find
very
useful especially when I need to adjust the basic shape (from which the linked offsets are made) later on.
I do believe that the Linux version of Xara can do all you wish. Download the .package version and see how you like it:
www.xaraxtreme.org/download/Run the movies to see just what this puppy can do:
http://downloads.xara.com/products/xtreme/movies/intro1.aviand
http://downloads.xara.com/products/xtreme/movies/intro2.aviThe intro2 shows how to make buttons like no other program I know, even the high priced spreads. It's so fast and easy to use that is a show-stopper.
frank
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Markus Bergholz wrote:
yes, xara is very fine. but it supports only xara file format and jpg
- png - that's a pity :-/
But in addition it exports GIF now, and will soon do PDF and SVG... very soon. It's turning out to be better than the Windows versions. All coming when version 1.0 is released.
frank
frank gaude' wrote:
Hans Nieser wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to use Inkscape 0.44 to design basic graphics for websites (think content boxes, buttons, titles and so on) and to get highlight and shadow borders around them I make use of linked offsets, which I find very useful especially when I need to adjust the basic shape (from which the linked offsets are made) later on.
I do believe that the Linux version of Xara can do all you wish. Download the .package version and see how you like it:
www.xaraxtreme.org/download/Run the movies to see just what this puppy can do:
http://downloads.xara.com/products/xtreme/movies/intro1.aviand
http://downloads.xara.com/products/xtreme/movies/intro2.aviThe intro2 shows how to make buttons like no other program I know, even the high priced spreads. It's so fast and easy to use that is a show-stopper.
frank
Thanks for the suggestion, I've been wanting to have a look at Xara Extreme for some time but was waiting for an ebuild to show up in Gentoo's portage (but I guess I could just stop being lazy and try to compile this thing myself). Anyway, I have created a bugreport for this, since I am and probably will remain very fond of Inkscape :)
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