can i change the default page size somehow?

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can i change the default page size somehow?

Postby Hi » Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:28 pm

i'm hoping there's a way to change the default page size from 'letter' to 'letter-landscape.' i use it more often, and it'd be nice to be able to just click the 'new' button when i start something.

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Re: can i change the default page size somehow?

Postby sas » Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:31 pm

The default page is the file default.svg in your Inkscape templates directory. (On Windows this will usually be C:\Program Files\Inkscape\share\templates\default.svg). So just change the size of this.

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Re: can i change the default page size somehow?

Postby Hi » Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:34 pm

alright, i was able to get it to work. it was a little bit trickier to find since i'm not using windows, but i was able to do it just the same. thank you for your help!
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if anyone else needs to know how to do this with ubuntu, i went to the file system from the root, and the path was usr/share/inkscape/templates/default.svg.

Anon

Re: can i change the default page size somehow?

Postby Anon » Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:42 am

On OS X, the file appears to be inside the app itself:

/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/templates/default.svg

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Re: can i change the default page size somehow?

Postby ~suv » Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:09 am

Hi wrote:if anyone else needs to know how to do this with ubuntu, i went to the file system from the root, and the path was usr/share/inkscape/templates/default.svg.

Anon wrote:On OS X, the file appears to be inside the app itself:

It would be better to create a new user default template and save it as
  • (Inkscape 0.46:) '~/.inkscape/templates/default.svg'
  • (Inkscape 0.47:) '~/.config/inkscape/templates/default.svg'
Thus it will survive any upgrade or re-installation of (newer) Inkscape versions.

Inkscape » Customization » Inkscape Configuration Files
<http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Customize-Files.html#Customize-Files-Templates>
Inkscape » File Format » Default Template File
<http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/FileFormat-Default.html>


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