Is there something I'm doing inefficiently or wrong, or is it just that complicated paths can't help but soak up lots of memory.

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.

Hey, I'd like to write a Python script in Inkscape, but I cannot find something like a straightforward "API" or something. I have seriously Googled quite a bit on it, but everything looks horribly complicated. Is there a straightforward way for creating a line from A to B, for example? Or does everything I want to do in Python require some complicated XML handling? Thanks, Maarten On 6/30/09 12:16 PM, "Jasper van de Gronde" <th.v.d.gronde@...226...> wrote: > 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. >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user ________________________________________________________________ Maarten van der Velde graphic designer Powel ASA Klæbuveien 194, NO-7037 Trondheim, NORWAY Phone: +47 73 80 45 00 - Fax: +47 73 80 45 01 Direct line: +47 73 80 46 21 - Mobile: +47  48 16 46 21 / +31  (0) 6 30 80 95 91 Email: Maarten.van-der-Velde@...2171... http://www.powel.com/ ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.powel.no ********************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

Hey, I'd like to write a Python script in Inkscape, but I cannot find something like a straightforward "API" or something. I have seriously Googled quite a bit on it, but everything looks horribly complicated. Is there a straightforward way for creating a line from A to B, for example? Or does everything I want to do in Python require some complicated XML handling? Thanks, Maarten On 6/30/09 12:16 PM, "Jasper van de Gronde" <th.v.d.gronde@...226...> wrote: > 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. >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user ________________________________________________________________ Maarten van der Velde graphic designer Powel ASA Klæbuveien 194, NO-7037 Trondheim, NORWAY Phone: +47 73 80 45 00 - Fax: +47 73 80 45 01 Direct line: +47 73 80 46 21 - Mobile: +47 48 16 46 21 / +31 (0) 6 30 80 95 91 Email: Maarten.van-der-Velde@...2171... http://www.powel.com/ ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.powel.no ********************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

http://www.programmer-art.org/projects/svg-utils

I'm still wishing for a model by which we have access to the living inkscape internals and access to draw with all of those tools in python.

So, basically, if I'd want to get information from the underlaying drawing (like the coordinates of a node), I'd have to do XML operations? Like finding an attribute and it's value, etc?