Hello If the bitmap must already exist for this to work - then the multi-board render farm to manage the render ( export to PNG ) is the only real option. GPU could enhance the render and print to screen/monitor, but, their codecs and such may limit their appealability when compared to a multi-board...

Hello :idea: Reply to Ragstian Yeah, GPUs are great and they drive the very rapid displays in video games. Unfortunately, as far as I can discover, current Inkscape does not prioritize their use for render ( export to PNG ) or as a render prior to print to screen functions when zooming in on a file....

Hello Why would one want to do this? What can you do with it? Read the complaints in the other posts. Export to PNG ( render to PNG ) takes too long. It would be a very great time improvement if the system allowed the photographing of the work rather than having to wait for every node to be recalcul...

Hello The basic concept of a render is that the calculations are sent to the CPU for conversion into another format. In this case from Vector to Bitmap. Inkscape sends all of that data to only one CPU. Software which can use a render farm basically divides the calculation set so that it can be sent ...

Hello :idea: Reply to v1nce I am NOT requesting a 32GB opportunity with Inkscape. As I stated in the original post: While I am not advocating the elevation of the capacity to those levels - I am suggesting that the file size opportunities presented by inkskape should expand greatly. The question is ...

Hello All :idea: I know painters who actually buy different sands and such to mix with linseed oil to make their own paint. Fresco painters and decorators often use a paint called "milk paint." ( check google ) This is an increasingly common practice in the traditional art world. I think i...

How is the request for additional memory capability an "individual request?"

9 MB is too small for the gigabyte - terabyte era.

Allowing larger files - regardless of the example one uses to encourage that enhancement - assists and benefits everyone.

Thank you
James

Hello This post should actually be rather short. I will consider what I mean by the term "render farm" as a precursor to the act of displaying data to a screen. :idea: :idea: :idea: The internet = a network " out there " An intranet = a network " in here " ( in this cas...

Hello I will use this thread to discuss the controversial concept of using SVG-XML languages to create a graphic database. :idea: :idea: :idea: Database: A collection of data stored on a computer storage medium, such as a disk, that can be used for more than one purpose. Dictionary of Computer Terms...

Hello I will use this thread to discuss what I perceive to be a "memory cap" within Inkscape. :idea: :idea: :idea: I am defining a "memory cap" as the approximate upper limit for possible size of a file. When variables, within software, are defined - they are given a possible mem...

Hello This post regards what will basically obsolete the "render" or "export to PNG" function if implemented. :idea: :idea: :idea: Please try this in inkscape: Open a new inkscape file create a total of two additional layers for a total of three somewhere on the page, place a rec...

Hello I would like to use this thread to present and discuss the concept of the "professional artist" and why, I think, some of us use "free" software. I use the masculine pronouns because, well, I'm masculine. ;) :idea: :idea: :idea: I am defining the "professional artist&q...

Reply to all I am going to start a couple additional threads. The first will be a discussion about the professional artist. I will edit this specific post which you are reading now to direct readers to the others wherever they get placed. I will try to minimize the hop-scotch through the forum syndr...

Reply to Brynn and Maestral Maestral first: I do not find the link reference information when following your last post. I am sincere in my request. I hope your post was friendly and not intended as an act of arrogance. Thank You Brynn: Thank You I fully understand about the forking issue. I hope the...

Reply to Maestral You have no idea how heavy your post is. I very sincerely thank you. Also, what is the reference from which this was obtained. I am working on a series for the holy books - Bible, BOM etc and this would be a great addition if it is pre 1923. Please, what is the source? Thank you Pr...

Hello I will, in this post, use the :arrow: smilie to designate where my commentary starts and ends. Other text is referenced and simple for those who are not programmers. 1. Rendering: In computerese, rendering means creating content of one sort from content of another sort... - PG 587 - Adobe Phot...

Who is the intended consumer and audience for inkscape?

reply to Lazur URH I really don't like the video games either. Though, I do enjoy wacking a goblin once in a while.... ;) I don't even watch television or lease cable. I much prefer a good jazz, a good old book, a glass of brandy, beautiful women etc. Who has time for TV. Not my boob box! :twisted: ...

further reply to lazur urh I am going to enter it all as a quote because it is on the previous page - a little easier this way. I agree - there is no conversation between you and I. I simply do not have common ground, as an artist in our digital reality, with someone who would write the following: Y...

reply to druban You keep carrying on about 'port'. Did you make up this usage? Import Export --port Export here - import there = the image has been transported - ported. "Transfer (software) from one system to another" Inkscape is a system of subroutines. GIMP is a system of subroutines. T...

Reply to Lazur URH I am not forcing the render to bitmaps. The "camera" system I, and probably someone before me, suggested does not exist. This is probably part of the reason why the - Make Bitmap Copy - which is represented with a camera - is being improved. Perhaps SVG should be the fin...

we = artists = users of the software Actually, no. Hard to believe that someone using it day in and day out hasn't used this command, which makes a bitmap version of whatever object is selected, at a particular resolution (adjustable in upcoming versions, fixed in current stable The function capture...

Hello Thank You BobSongs. I do not mean to sound abrasive in anything I write and apologize if I have. However, I am realistic. Its just that I use this software all day every day and have for years. I am not a casual user. I literally bet the farm on this application every day. I do not make websit...

Me again I read the post about the developers trying to improve the render - ( I'm sorry : export to PNG) - tool set. It will not work! It won't! 1. The function is not an export. The function is a render. The function recalculates the vector data into bitmap data. That is a render. Display would be...

Response to last post Reading other posts on this website - others are saying the same thing I am about the usability of inkscape. 1. Professional pay-for-work entities require knowledge of Adobe's software. We do not have time to keep up with the gimmicks, work arounds, reprogram this or that, type...