Hi all,
I could not manage the way to work with quite big svg files.
I'm usually working with R (statistic program), export plot to ps or svg, and then tune my figures with inkscape. The problem is that when svg files are rather big (few Mb), inkscape uses all the RAM and finally all the swap.... my laptop freezes.
Is there a way to work with big svg files with inkscape ?
As an example, find an svg files (5.6 Mb) at http://serv-umr5023.univ-lyon1.fr/~tlefebure/tmp/test.svg and screenshot of inkscape with the memory tracer open at http://serv-umr5023.univ-lyon1.fr/~tlefebure/tmp/capture1.png . My laptop (512 Mb of RAM, and 700 Mb of swap) freezes when I try to export a png of this file.
inkscape.i386.0.42-2.fc4 on fedora core 4
thanks for any help...
tristan
inkscape-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net wrote on 02/09/2005 11:55:55 PM:
Is there a way to work with big svg files with inkscape ?
As an example, find an svg files (5.6 Mb) at http://serv-umr5023.univ-lyon1.fr/~tlefebure/tmp/test.svg and
screenshot of
inkscape with the memory tracer open at http://serv-umr5023.univ-lyon1.fr/~tlefebure/tmp/capture1.png . My
laptop
(512 Mb of RAM, and 700 Mb of swap) freezes when I try to export a png
of
this file.
Have you tried exporting to plain postscript (.ps) from inkscape first, exiting inkscape, and then using 'ps2pdf' to convert to postscript?
Ghostscript (used for PDF conversion)(?) takes quite a bit of memory on it's own.
-kt
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Le Lundi 05 Septembre 2005 02:00, Kinsley Turner a écrit :
Have you tried exporting to plain postscript (.ps) from inkscape first, exiting inkscape, and then using 'ps2pdf' to convert to postscript?
Ghostscript (used for PDF conversion)(?) takes quite a bit of memory on it's own.
thanks, it works for this particularly file: saving in ps does not use supplementary memory and my laptop did not freeze. (but the ps is not as nice as I wish, but that's an other problem).
More generally, Is Inkscape not intended to work with big svg files (e.g. 10Mo) ? (with a 5 Mo svg file, Inkscape uses more than 600 Mo of memory !!!)
tristan
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