The last time frame I've heard is "sometime this year". However, it IS already available as a development version. A lot of people like to use dev versions, because they can get new features and fixed bugs without waiting. But they have to be willing to put up with instability. And when y...

On 0.48.4, Win7, 64-bit, Inkscape Preferences > Filters > Number of Threads. But that will only help if the images have a lot of filters. Couldn't see the forest for the trees - thanks Oh my! The first image is over 26 mb. It also contains embedded raster images, which I would guess are responsible...

Hi. Inkscape "out of the box" uses one processor thread only - for a multicore processor system make sure all cores are enabled in the preferences. This improved rendering speed a lot on my system. See below; RGDS Ragnar My preferences looks very different to that - the only expandable ta...

My system is idling now at about 25% ram usage. Links for example images which will reliably crash either upon opening or within a few minutes: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CIA_WorldFactBook_Physical_World.svg http://sourceforge.net/projects/epsmapsfordesig/ Both are over 20mb Example imag...

Hi, I've been trying to open and use some large and/or complex files from Wiki Commons, and they cause Inkscape to crash with great regularity, and even if they don't are slow and extremely laggy. I've got the current stable release - 0.48.4 - and my system is running Win7 x64 with 16gb ram and an n...