Re: Problem with huge SVG-Files

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 15:23 +0200, Carsten Otto wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
Hi!

> eog seems to have problems with huge (SVG) images. I need to display
> results from dot (graphviz) which are 33580 x 8398 pixels (according to
> eog). Displaying the images with dotty works, but is not as nice as eog
> (I need to zoom out, as the graph is quite confusing).
> 
> eog uses 1.1 GByte of RAM, which seems to be OK for an image of that
> size (although native SVG support without the need to rasterize
> everything would be really cool).
> 
> The attached screenshow shows the problem.

I think you are hitting a limitation in the GdkPixbuf library here,
which is used by EOG. See
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163090 .
The real solution on EOG's side would be to render the SVG directly to
the screen pretty much avoiding GdkPixbuf (bug #108435). But this
requires a major rework in several core components of EOG (as it was
designed to display raster images) and thus might not happen soon.

Felix