I just started using inkscape. It seems very good, but I want to draw in white. How do i get the background (alpha channel) to be displayed in another colour? thanks,pete.

Pretty sure you can change the page colour. Look in the page settings. Alternatively, make a new layer, draw a rectangle in your colour, lock it and then draw on a layer above that.

hth /d

--- Richard Querin <rfquerin@...155...> wrote:

On 3/16/07, Donn <donn.ingle@...155...> wrote:

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I just started using inkscape. It seems very good, but I want to draw in white. How do i get the background (alpha channel) to be displayed in another colour?

thanks,pete. Pretty sure you can change the page colour. Look in the page

settings.

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Alternatively, make a new layer, draw a rectangle in your colour,

lock it

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and then draw on a layer above that.

I believe it's File->Document Properties, then on the 'Page' tab click on the background and set the colour.

I don't think this will stick as the default the next time you run Inkscape, but maybe there's a config setting that will make it stick as default?

RQ

Do it to a fresh file, and save it over the default.svg in the share directory to make it the standard setting for new files.

Cheers

Sim

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