Well, that was the problem. My butchery got them in that state. The SVGs provided by my friend are compact and simple.

Thanks for the help!

----- Original Message ---- From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...> To: Inkscape User Community inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 2:27:00 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] PC crawling due to apparent complexity -- need tips

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:03:37AM -0700, Charles Blaine wrote:

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.

If you load the SVG in any text editor, you can get a pretty good idea by just looking at how many times <path... appears.

Bryce

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