You can also find those useful zoom options by clicking the Zoom tool.

These buttons allow you to zoom in specifically on selections, drawings, page size, or page width. Get familiar with these icons under View > Zoom. Your view is based on what you're zoomed in on, right? Let's go over a few tricks for zooming in and out of your document. And of course, you can Control-5 to toggle back to your normal display mode. It turns every path or object into a simple wire-frame situation. Rarely, setting Display Mode: Outline might become useful to you.

As you can see below, the blurs are totally gone and my shadows are just little blobs now. I've toggled to Display Mode: No Filters which immediately sped up Inkscape enough for me to quickly edit something without it being annoyingly slow. Or, you can always head up to View > Display Mode. I've already noticed Inkscape is starting to get a little slow, but I really don't want to turn down the quality of these effects.Ī neat alternative to speeding Inkscape temporarily (or as you need it) is to simply hit Control + 5 to toggle the display mode. Of course, these settings are for visual purposes only - your document will publish with the best quality no matter what.īelow, we've got a couple layers of apples with some added shadows and blurs. As you can guess, the lowest quality will give you a big speed boost while the best quality will bog you down. On the left, I have the Blur set to 'Best quality' and the right is set to 'Lowest quality'. I personally didn't notice a difference with different numbers of threads, but it might be worth a shot. If you're feeling ambitious, you can even increase the number of threads (processors) to do some more of the rendering. This will dramatically increase your Inkscape's speed. Go ahead and select what works best for your setup. Select the Filters menu to open up an array of quality options for both blurs and filters. Good old File > Inkscape Preferences has some options to free up some processing. In this quick tip, we'll go over a few ways to get your document back up to speed. If you've worked with advanced drawing in Inkscape before, you may have noticed that Inkscape starts to seriously slow down.

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