17.5 Filter Rendering Options
As you may have noticed by now, for all their power, filters in Inkscape have a significant drawback: They are slow. Sometimes, very slow. While future versions of the program may to some extent address this (most likely, by enabling Inkscape to use the graphics card processor for filter calculations), there’s something you can do right now.
First of all, recall that you can always switch to the Outline mode (3.11 Rendering Modes) to speed up rendering while working on a document. There is also the No Filters mode, which is the same as normal mode except that no filters are rendered; this is perhaps the best option if filters are the main source of slowness for you.
Also, the Filters tab of the Inkscape Preferences ...
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