Hello,

just have a question cause the speed of inkscape. I'm working on an quad core PC, with a iNvidia GeForce GTX-260. If I zoom in my vector graphics (for example 3000%), the screen will be updated incredible slow. Is that normal?

Thanks for advice

Skimi

Yes, unfortunately it is, at this stage in Inkscape's development. Apparently you're working on a very complex image with either a huge number of nodes and/or gradients, blurs and/or filters.

Depending on your image and what you're doing, you may be able to get around it by making full use of Layers (if you're not already). Then you can hide the layers and/or parts of the image that you're not using at the moment. Again, depending on what you're doing, there may be ways to decrease the number of nodes. Like for example if you've traced a photo, you might be able to use Path menu > Simplify, to reduce the number of nodes without distorting or changing your image significantly. Each time you click Simplify, you'll reduce the number, so probably once should be enough (if this is your scenario). More than once and there will be a significant distortion. But you're the best judge of that

I believe I read where the development plans are to address this problem in....I don't think it's the next version, but the next one after that, if I recall correctly.

You can also temporarily disable rendering of the filter effects when working with complex drawings: menu 'View > Display Mode > No Filters'.