5 Dec
                
                    2005
                
            
            
                5 Dec
                
                '05
                
            
            
            
        
    
                8:18 a.m.
            
        In my experience, the main Inkscape usage is not printing, so i question if the default empty document should really be a full page
but you're not a beginner, so please step back :) even I who knows the program uses it only with A4, and mostly for printing.
I observed newbies not understanding the need to change the page size or not knowing how to do it - for example at OCAL we receive from time to time tiny images in a full A4 canvas (this is not good for automatic generation of thumbnails).
but it would surely be possible to get the bounding box of the drawings and use that?
ralf