Sorry to clog the space, wasn't sure what counted as embedded. Will get together with colleague (not before tomorrow) to file bug report, it is new to us but we use inkscape rarely so cannot say whether it is a bug in the app or elsewhere---but it's occurence in two OS points to the app, I think. Thanks for responses and in general all the efforts, I liked inkscape a lot and we used it in this case even with the performance issues.
Sorry to clog the space, wasn't sure what counted as embedded. Will get together with colleague (not before tomorrow) to file bug report, it is new to us but we use inkscape rarely so cannot say whether it is a bug in the app or elsewhere---but it's occurence in two OS points to the app, I think. Thanks for responses and in general all the efforts, I liked inkscape a lot and we used it in this case even with the performance issues.