On 05/20/2011 08:49 AM, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I installed inkscape-0.48.1-r1 on a x86 machine. For a few > seconds/minutes after opening an svg image rendering is fast as > expected, but soon it gets bogged down to the point of seeing the > image being rendered in slow motion, a row at a time if e.g. I scroll > up or down the page. Only 20% of RAM (of 3G total) is being used at > the time, so I'm guessing this could be something to do with the ATI > video card? > > Other graphics apps open at the same time (e.g. Gimp) do not have such > problems rendering graphics (albeit not svg). > > Before I post loads of info which may be unnecessary, have you come > across anything similar and how can I troubleshoot it? > > PS. I unmasked 0.48.1-r1 because 0.48.0 was even worse.
I don't suppose you have a ton of fonts installed? I've had Inkscape lock up for like 5 minutes at a time when it was loading the font list (either at startup or when opening the text dialog).