Actually, what Manfred suggested may be quite useful.

Working with high-resolution graphics in Inkscape all the time often requires scaling down images to fit the page size once you have dragged/pasted them onto the canvas, which generally requires zooming out a lot to grab handles, etc. In fact, the addition of "fit to document" under Edit > Paste Size > Fit to Document, would be so useful to me, that I'd probably assign a hotkey for it. :)

My 2p.

-C

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 10:17 PM, <webman> wrote:
> Hi Bryn,
>
> thanks for your reply.
>
> It shows, I explained it not very well ...
>
> I create a new layer, then I put a rectangle into it
> and want to make it sized like the page-dimension
> and aligned to it (0,0,max-x,max-y).

My advice: setup a custom default template with snapping to page
enabled. That way you can just draw a new rectangle that matches
page's size easily.

Shameless plug:
http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/using-templates-in-inkscape

Alex

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