Ralf Stephan wrote:
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.
Of course i am not a beginner and know how to edit templates, but defaults matters and having the best values as default is very important, see Firefox or GNOME - most users never change the default values.
I may be wrong and A4 is the best default, but this is why i think is good to talk about it, to learn about different opinions.
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?
OCAL is used in a lot of ways by a lot of people with various skills, so in this particular case i think the best thing is to edit the files and change the page size (this is not easy to do right now, but i plan to work on it someday)