Penpot freezes when working with long text

[vadim]

Hello,

I’ve recently started using Penpot and encountered a significant issue. When working with graphics and images, regardless of their size, everything runs smoothly, and I have no problems at all. However, the issue arises when I try to create an A4 magazine page with text (16px, using a standard font like Roboto). If the text occupies around 2/3 of the page, Penpot starts to slow down significantly or even completely freezes, making it impossible to continue working. As a result, I wasn’t able to complete the page with text.

I’ve tried using all available browsers, including Chrome, as recommended. The server is powerful enough with 32GB of memory, and all resources are fully allocated to Penpot in Cloudron.

Has anyone else faced this issue? Is there a solution, or is Penpot not suitable for handling large amounts of text?

Thank you in advance for any help or suggestions!

[vadim]

Actually I've got answer here https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-freezes-when-working-with-long-text/6687

[nebulon]

Thanks for attaching the upstream link.

[vadim]

Penpot is updated, but problem is still the same. It is not possible to work with text, absolutely. Penpot just freezes. Is there any idea how to fix it?

[nebulon]

@vadim maybe you can provide some steps to reproduce this. I just installed a fresh penpot on my test Cloudron and adding text and doing basic operations and adding filters seems to work just fine:

[vadim]

If you try this kind of text

[nebulon]

ah ok, maybe penpot is not designed to work with such large texts currently. Would be good if you can also add that info in the upstream forum post you created to give them more context. I don't think this is a Cloudron packaging issue then.

[vadim]

Ok! Thank you! Cloudron in any case amazing product