I have been using Inkscape to create a number of geological drawings and pattern fills to represent different rock types. As the patterns and drawings have become more complex I have been experiencing lag to the point of being essentially unworkable.
Here is an example of one of the patterns and a section of the type of drawing I am trying to replicate. In total I would be working with 6-8 different patterns over a much large drawing.
I have tweaked all the preferences/settings as much as possible (e.g. lowest quality rendering, max threads for my current hardware) but I am currently using a relatively old (mid 2012) Macbook pro with a 2.9 GHz dual core Intel i7 CPU and 8GB RAM.
Can anyone give me some advice on the following?
1. What is considered a reasonable file size for Inkscape to run efficiently (the issue file is 60.9 MB)?
2. I have created patterns by first drawing objects with the bezier tool, then using tiled clones for different shapes, overlaid and combined as a group (some groups are several thousand individual paths), and then used the objects to pattern function. Is there a way to reduce the file size of a pattern while retaining the drawings complexity (i.e. without really altering how the drawing/pattern looks)?
3. Related to 2. - is there a workaround/different methodology for creating these types of patterns?
4. I see there have been some discussions around minimum and recommended hardware for running Inkscape but they don't seem to have reached any conclusion. Is it likely that a laptop with a newer CPU with more cores and hyperthreading capabilities will resolve my issues with lag?
I am far from an expert user over vector graphics so I could be missing some simple solutions here.
1. personally, i think after 5-10 MB (of vector data) its starts to get bad
2.
how many clones are you using? if it is more than 4 you are doing it wrong :D try using pattern tempalte preset
3.
there a two things that metter to inskcape an that is ram anount (16 is good 32 aweosom) and single core speed alsost nothing use gpu or more than one core (thatas why wverignih is so slow) . but to be honest using mac and inkscape is shooting yourself in a foot . If you realy want significatn speed boost only thing that wil hel is to use linux coz of gtk3 on mac is just broken
Beyond the Basics Tiled clone patterns causing significant lag
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Hello,
I have been using Inkscape to create a number of geological drawings and pattern fills to represent different rock types. As the patterns and drawings have become more complex I have been experiencing lag to the point of being essentially unworkable.
Here is an example of one of the patterns and a section of the type of drawing I am trying to replicate. In total I would be working with 6-8 different patterns over a much large drawing.
I have tweaked all the preferences/settings as much as possible (e.g. lowest quality rendering, max threads for my current hardware) but I am currently using a relatively old (mid 2012) Macbook pro with a 2.9 GHz dual core Intel i7 CPU and 8GB RAM.
Can anyone give me some advice on the following?
1. What is considered a reasonable file size for Inkscape to run efficiently (the issue file is 60.9 MB)?
2. I have created patterns by first drawing objects with the bezier tool, then using tiled clones for different shapes, overlaid and combined as a group (some groups are several thousand individual paths), and then used the objects to pattern function. Is there a way to reduce the file size of a pattern while retaining the drawings complexity (i.e. without really altering how the drawing/pattern looks)?
3. Related to 2. - is there a workaround/different methodology for creating these types of patterns?
4. I see there have been some discussions around minimum and recommended hardware for running Inkscape but they don't seem to have reached any conclusion. Is it likely that a laptop with a newer CPU with more cores and hyperthreading capabilities will resolve my issues with lag?
I am far from an expert user over vector graphics so I could be missing some simple solutions here.
Cheers,
Jack
1.
personally, i think after 5-10 MB (of vector data) its starts to get bad
2.
how many clones are you using? if it is more than 4 you are doing it wrong :D try using pattern tempalte preset
3.
there a two things that metter to inskcape an that is ram anount (16 is good 32 aweosom) and single core speed alsost nothing use gpu or more than one core (thatas why wverignih is so slow) . but to be honest using mac and inkscape is shooting yourself in a foot . If you realy want significatn speed boost only thing that wil hel is to use linux coz of gtk3 on mac is just broken