Hey, I'm new at Inkscape and I've got a behavior that I don't know if it's supposed to be like that: I made an SVG in Processing and imported it to Inkscape, it is about 8,000 lines. when I try to ungroup all of them (ctrl + shift + g), the software freezes and it complete the ungrouping after 8 hours or so. Is Inkscape can't handle this amount of objects? am I done something wrong? I use version 1.4 in Windows
No, this is not expected behaviour. I regularly import pdf documents with thousands of paths. There's something in your file structure that's choking Inkscape. Perhaps you can upload a modest sample file (with fewer shapes) for interrogation.
Inkscape is performing very bad with style attributes. If, say that group had a style attribute -or transformation for that matter- set to it, by ungrouping,Â
every object inside will inherit said attribute/transformation in some form.Â
So when ungroping it does go through that 8000 objects.
As a result, after ungrouping and saving your file, bet it is 10 times its original size.
You need alot of memory to process that and capable to use the resources at hand -which is yet another part inkscape doesn't hold as a selling point.
If there isn't much to inherit those group attributes, then I'd try removing the group object tags in the original svg file with a notepad.
It may work, although when saving it as svg with inkscape after any necessary editing it may want to add more attributes to objectsÂ
-for "convenience".Â
Browsers render svg-s at their face values. Inkscape tries to add "useful" information to make it extra clear so it's not a guessing game.
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Hey, I'm new at Inkscape and I've got a behavior that I don't know if it's supposed to be like that:
I made an SVG in Processing and imported it to Inkscape, it is about 8,000 lines.
when I try to ungroup all of them (ctrl + shift + g), the software freezes and it complete the ungrouping after 8 hours or so.
Is Inkscape can't handle this amount of objects? am I done something wrong?
I use version 1.4 in Windows
No, this is not expected behaviour. I regularly import pdf documents with thousands of paths. There's something in your file structure that's choking Inkscape. Perhaps you can upload a modest sample file (with fewer shapes) for interrogation.
Yes and no.Â
Inkscape is performing very bad with style attributes. If, say that group had a style attribute -or transformation for that matter- set to it, by ungrouping,Â
every object inside will inherit said attribute/transformation in some form.Â
So when ungroping it does go through that 8000 objects.
As a result, after ungrouping and saving your file, bet it is 10 times its original size.
You need alot of memory to process that and capable to use the resources at hand -which is yet another part inkscape doesn't hold as a selling point.
If there isn't much to inherit those group attributes, then I'd try removing the group object tags in the original svg file with a notepad.
It may work, although when saving it as svg with inkscape after any necessary editing it may want to add more attributes to objectsÂ
-for "convenience".Â
Browsers render svg-s at their face values. Inkscape tries to add "useful" information to make it extra clear so it's not a guessing game.