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Thanks to Johan Engelen's bug fixing kung fu it's now possible to export ridiculous huge PNGs via command line. Thanks heaps mate! :)

I just exported some SVG at 524288x256 pixels. That's 512mb of raw data and it only took 45 seconds! That's really plain awesome.

The main reason why I wanted it so badly (sorry for the nagging Johan) is because wide images are faster to export than tall ones (see my previous post), and because slicing it up in only one direction simplifies the code of my yet to be released multi threaded export extension.

Inkscape 0.46 is going to be so sweet.

People often complained that their PNG export took bloody ages. At high resolutions and with some blur it sometimes took over 10 hours. That's really not nice. However, things improved a lot during the last few months, and whenever the issue arose I pointed people at the unstable SVN builds.

It was apparently noticeable faster, but I wasn't sure how much exactly, and there were no facts to backup my claims. That's why I decided to do some benchmarks on my own. I already had the framework for this from my multi core export extension tests. So, this was pretty easy to do.

The test machine was a AMD 64 X2 4200+ with 2GB of RAM.

With Blur

Used SVG: exp5.svg

Without Blur

Used SVG: exp5nb.svg