Dear all,

I am editing a A4 Poster with a lot of text, but then Inkscape becomes very very slow, especially when editing text, what' s wrong?
-> it can take 5 to 10 sec when I add a single character,e.g. "a".

so any fix for this problem?

I am using ACER C110 Tablet PC with 1GB RAM, is it not enough?
-> but the file size of the *.svg file is only 25kB, while the size of all the 3 photos imported are less than 250kB in total.


Thanks for any Kind of help?

Hello everyone,

I'm having exactly the same problem, but only since I've migrated to Windows 7.

A fresh install of the latest version of Inkscape didn't change anything.

Simply said, if I edit a text area, however big, it goes smoothly until I have some 500-600 characters, and then the typing becomes extremely slow - at a point, it is simply impossible to work, which makes me first type in a notepad, not exactly the best way...

I assume it doesn't come from my hardware (a Quad with 4 Gigs of RAM), as it never happened under Vista or XP...

Anyone else had a similar behavior, or even found a solution ?

An example .svg can be found here :

http://www.varkhan.com/varkhan/docs/HE/ ... 091216.svg

(it's a fake newspaper I edit every week, the text areas are quite big, but nothing extraordinary, I think)

.....

druban wrote:one of the things I've noticed in Inkscape that surprises me is that when working with large amounts of text the program slows down to a crawl but it does exactly the same when you convert that mass of text to outlines! Naturally the file size balloons but there is no additional slowdown!!! This leads me to believe that inkscape converts all text to outlines internally - not a particularly desirable implementation of the text feature.

On the other hand both Scribus and Openoffice manage their text blocks very fast and offer quite a few features in terms of manipulation. Apparently Inkscape is not set up to be a text handling app at this time, so I just use it for bits of text that are going to be converted to outlines and transformed or graphically manipulated.....

I am not sure if the developers of Inkscape are looking this post...
-> I believe that Text are actually Outlines inside Inkscape, and that's why so slow when a "little bit" larger block of text exists
-> so if this is the case, appreciate if RE-DESIGN of text block! Any Schedule?

Welcome your comments, Inkscape Developers!

Rgds,