Hi,

Whenever I create a basic drawing (square, circle, etc.) a transform (translate) attribute is added by default without me doing any moving at all. Please check the image below:

http://imgur.com/vW7mthY

This is reflected via the following code to the saved SVG file:



The translate value is always the same. I am using inline SVG using the generated code, and this transform causes issues with displaying the images. Tried removing it following some tutorials I found but it's not working. Any ideas why this transform is applied by default and how to get rid of it?

To avoid such transformations on the top-level layer group(s): After resizing the page (changing the page height or orientation, or resizing it to drawing/selection), add a new layer and draw on the newly added layer.

[ when changing the page size (height or orientation), 'translate()' transformations may get added to top-level layer groups to accommodate the two different coordinate systems (SVG, Inkscape GUI) in order to keep the content of existing layers at the relative same distance from the GUI origin (lower left corner of the page) as before. ]

Thank you, it worked. Though, I wish there was a one-time setting for this as it will be annoying to have to create a new layer every time I will make a simple drawing.

Since I don't understand this very well, I'm not sure if this will work. But I wonder if a custom default doc with a 2nd layer would work?

Maybe the transform attribute would still be applied to the 2nd layer. I'm just not sure.