2.0.2 Slow and crashes, was Re: Crop external image.

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thursday 14 October 2010, John Culleton wrote:
> On Thursday 14 October 2010 09:50:47 John Culleton wrote:
> > Is there a way to bring a CMYK PDF into Krita, crop it to a desired
> > size, and then save it as a tiff?
> 
> OK Googled on crop and Krita and found that it needs a double click to 
> complete the crop. Easy but not intuitive for a Gimp user. 
> 
> Now when I try to import a 15 x 12 inch pdf file and set the resolution 
> at 600 it loads dead slowly and sometimes crashes. I am using 2.0.2 on 
> Slackware Linux 13.0. Upgrading Krita means upgrading all of KDE and 
> that is so much work that it is easier just to install a new distro 
> somewhere on a spare partition. So what is recommended as a recent, 
> more or less crash proof Krita and what distro has it? 
> 

Only starting with Krita 2.3 (which is currently in beta) can we really recommend Krita for end-users. A 9000 x 7200 image should be possible with 2.3, if you have enough memory.

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