On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
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Erik tossed this interesting tidbit my way:
http://codewideopen.blogspot.com/2008/09/inkscape-shell-patch.html
Inkscape can already be used on the command-line to do SVG to PNG conversions, but there's some folks working on patches to allow a single process to accept multiple requests over time. This may confer a performance advantage, avoiding startup costs, but I haven't seen any stats.
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http://www.nabble.com/Fun-project:-write-and-profile-a-Batik-server-td794205...
For a while I was automatically detecting SVGs from the site that broke inkscape (usually causing it to gobble oodles of ram) and feeding them to inkscape developers. I have no clue if those issues were fixed. Regardless of the batch processing patches, inkscape's increased completeness seemed to justify the slight loss of performance, but the stability problems were deal breakers.