If you've worked with advanced drawing in Inkscape before, you may
have noticed that Inkscape starts to seriously slow down. In this quick
tip, we'll go over a few ways to get your document back up to speed.
1. Adjust Some Preferences
Step 1
Good old File > Inkscape Preferences
has some options to free up some processing. Select the Filters menu to
open up an array of quality options for both blurs and filters. Go
ahead and select what works best for your setup. This will dramatically
increase your Inkscape's speed.
If you're feeling ambitious,
you can even increase the number of threads (processors) to do some more
of the rendering. I personally didn't notice a difference with
different numbers of threads, but it might be worth a shot.
Step 2
On
the left, I have the Blur set to "Best quality" and the right is set to
"Lowest quality"... obviously. As you can guess, the lowest quality
will give you a big speed boost while the best quality will bog you
down.
Of course, these settings are for visual purposes only - your document will publish with the best quality no matter what.
2. Toggle Display Mode
Step 1
Below,
we've got a couple layers of apples with some added shadows and blurs.
I've already noticed Inkscape is starting to get a little slow, but I
really don't want to turn down the quality of these effects.
A neat alternative to speeding Inkscape temporarily (or as you need it) is to simply hit Control + 5 to toggle the display mode. Or, you can always head up to View > Display Mode. Let's see what these look like.
Step 2
I've toggled to Display Mode: No Filters
which immediately sped up Inkscape enough for me to quickly edit
something without it being annoyingly slow. As you can see below, the
blurs are totally gone and my shadows are just little blobs now.
Step 3
Rarely, setting Display Mode: Outline might become useful to you. It turns every path or object into a simple wire-frame situation. And of course, you can Control-5 to toggle back to your normal display mode.
3. Managing Your Zoom
Step 1
Your
view is based on what you're zoomed in on, right? Let's go over a few
tricks for zooming in and out of your document. Get familiar with these
icons under View > Zoom. These buttons allow you to zoom in specifically on selections, drawings, page size, or page width.
Step 2
You can also find those useful zoom options by clicking the Zoom tool.
The neat part about using the actual tool is that you can drag a box of
what you'd like to fill your screen with, as you can see below.
TDasany
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