[Tilesathome] inkscape memory usage was: getting tiles again which failed?

[Florian Lohoff]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:54:06AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > I tried putting a failed tiles svg through rsvg and it rendered with
> > > <300M where inkscape used 2.5G before aborting (most likely reached
> > > process size limit for 32Bit as the machine has 4G)
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Rsvg was not complete enough for our purposes, batik was, when someone
> > Etienne? OJW? last looked.
> 
> I think rsvg was unable to draw text along paths at that time, a
> feature which is cruical for our maps... maybe it does that in the
> mean time?

Had a quick check with the text on a path svg from:

	http://www.linuxrising.org/svg_test/test.html

And rsvg from debian sid 

	flo at touch:~$ rsvg --version
	rsvg version 2.22.2

and no luck with text on a path ... I have found a bug 1) in the gnome
bugzilla from 2005 which states that there is no support for text on
path "yet" which seems to be the case 3 years later. From the rsvg
sourceforge page it also seems quite dead :(

Flo
1) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167708
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