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dasprid In reply to liamwhite1 [2014-02-25 21:58:59 +0000 UTC]

Well, there's obvious things that "stable" Ponyscape and Inkscape versions are slow with Gaussian Blur and tend to crash. That is obviously fixed in Inkscape 0.91, but there I'm missing the advanced swatches and the tagging feature (and well, I asked Flutterguy, and he won't port it himself, even though he submitted patches ages ago).

The other thing, which would generally be a great thing: select many objects, being it paths and/or strokes, and create a single path object out of it which can be used for clipping. Right now, e.g. for the mane, I have to duplicate every single outer stroke, convert it to a path, duplicate the fill and then union all those. That could really be automated.

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liamwhite1 In reply to dasprid [2014-02-26 05:09:04 +0000 UTC]

First one sounds pretty important, and flutterguy317 told me the same thing. I may end up doing this myself.

Second one: you don't need clipping here, you need masking! Duplicate everything, set all the strokes to white, set all the fills to white, group it, and then it will now work similar to a clip when applied as a mask to an object.

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dasprid In reply to liamwhite1 [2014-02-26 11:37:56 +0000 UTC]

You are right, masking should give the same results, but how about the performance of clipping vs masking?

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liamwhite1 In reply to dasprid [2014-02-26 11:44:57 +0000 UTC]

Should be nearly the same, so long as no elements within the mask have any filter effects applied to then.

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dasprid In reply to liamwhite1 [2014-02-26 11:55:13 +0000 UTC]

Okay, that sounds like a solution then, only leaves me with the crashing and performance problem

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