2.0.8/Jaguar slowness with big files

[Kenneth Prager]

At 12:12 PM +0100 9/9/02, Fraser Speirs wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>A designer buddy of mine is over playing with Graffle and we're 
>working on a site diagram that consists of about 60 elements from 
>the Garrett-IA palette on an A2 sheet.  We're hitting lots and lots 
>of speed problems with Graffle 2.0.8 - resizing, moving, scrolling, 
>in fact almost any operation on the diagram brings up the spinning 
>gumdrop of death.
>
>This is on a G4/800 with 1Gb ram, so it's not the hardware :-) 
>Quartz Debug shows a lot of big redraws going on - not sure if 
>that's it, but things are awfully, awfully slow.  I've never seen 
>Graffle struggle like this, but this is one of the bigger diagrams 
>that I've worked on.
>
>Is this a Jaguar thing or a Graffle thing, and is there anything I 
>can do to help it right now?
>
>Thanks,
>Fraser
>


I've noticed that OG runs slow with big, complex diagrams too.

One thing that effects this is the grid size.  Things definitely run 
slower with a finely-spaced grid.   It helps to set the grid spacing 
to fine only for as long as you need it (for manipulating small 
objects) and then revert back to a coarser grid for everything else.

HTH,

Ken P.