just ran inkscape to export the same file mentioned above in ec2 (amazon cloud) on a "high memory on demand system" which had 17G memory. same save settings but created a 32M pdf file in 8 mins no errors nothing but guess what? the resultant pdf only had a white rectangular area, the same ...

he he. i used apache batik lib to convert and guess what. bombed out so i guess it is the xml library thats causing the issue as most of the xml libs are memory intensive and my file is 3.9MB in pure svg format!! Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at jav...

so the error is in the inkscape code or in platform dependant lib. if it is plat dependant lib i could try it on linux on EC2 failing that i will try using batik to convert to rasterize

Unfortunately raster elements sneak in here and there and pretty soon they're sitting in your favorite chair eating toast and hogging the remote.

exactly man!

M for meter yes i am using transparencies and filters as this is a commercial project hence proffesional look is expected. thanks for your suggestion. i will try that and will let you know however if the DPI is reduced it is going to afftect the print quality though which will be unaccptable to my c...

yes M for meters

unfortunately my work is for a client and he wants the best design so my art work has lot of filter effects and transparency...

please chk the attachment.

thx for the help.

i will try your suggested fix and let you know mate.

thx very much for now!!

hello, i am designing a shop sign with the size of 0.462M height by 15M width. everything is fine until i start to export in PDF format. inkscape shutsdown with the error message "GLib cannot allocate enough memory" or something similar. however it does not fail if the art work is small li...