The default dimension setting for the marginal scales in Inkscape is in pixels which makes sense for most developmental work. But I prefer to work in inches, since my finished products (book covers) must be laid out very precisely in inches to get the spine to come out right. Of course one can create the components in inkscape and then stitch them together in e.g., Gimp, Scribus or even TeX. But I prefer to deal with the whole product in one program if possible. In Gimp there is an item in the lower left corner that resets the scales in e.g., inches. Does Inkscape have a corresponding setting somewhere?
John,
You can change the units IN inkscape to inches, mm, px, etc. Use ctrl+shift+d to open the document properties. Page and Grid tabs can be switched to inches in the drop down box . That should help with layout and putting guidelines where you like/need to.
The rectangle tool can also be set to inches, but the rest of the seem to only have pixels as the unit of choice. Maybe slightly annoying, but you should be able to use guidelines and the grid to work around all of this.
Others,
If I've miss spoken or failed to address something please feel free to correct/elaborate.
Hope this helps,
~A
On 5/28/07, John R. Culleton <john@...1668...> wrote:
The default dimension setting for the marginal scales in Inkscape is in pixels which makes sense for most developmental work. But I prefer to work in inches, since my finished products (book covers) must be laid out very precisely in inches to get the spine to come out right. Of course one can create the components in inkscape and then stitch them together in e.g., Gimp, Scribus or even TeX. But I prefer to deal with the whole product in one program if possible. In Gimp there is an item in the lower left corner that resets the scales in e.g., inches. Does Inkscape have a corresponding setting somewhere? -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com
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prefer to deal with the whole product in one program if possible. In Gimp there is an item in the lower left corner that resets the scales in e.g., inches. Does Inkscape have a corresponding setting somewhere?
File -> Document Properties -> Page -> Default units does what I think you want. Of course, if you want to change the setting for all new documents, create a document from the default template, change the setting, and save it over the default template.
On Mon, 28 May 2007 15:35:11 +0100 Daniel Hulme <art@...1790...> wrote:
prefer to deal with the whole product in one program if possible. In Gimp there is an item in the lower left corner that resets the scales in e.g., inches. Does Inkscape have a corresponding setting somewhere?
File -> Document Properties -> Page -> Default units does what I think you want. Of course, if you want to change the setting for all new documents, create a document from the default template, change the setting, and save it over the default template.
Hmm. So where *is* the default document?
Go to File > New and the list of templates will pop up. But I don't know how to create a new template or overwrite the default.
How does one do that?
Abrolag wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2007 15:35:11 +0100 Daniel Hulme <art@...1790...> wrote:
prefer to deal with the whole product in one program if possible. In Gimp there is an item in the lower left corner that resets the scales in e.g., inches. Does Inkscape have a corresponding setting somewhere?
File -> Document Properties -> Page -> Default units does what I think you want. Of course, if you want to change the setting for all new documents, create a document from the default template, change the setting, and save it over the default template.
Hmm. So where *is* the default document?
On 2007-May-28 , at 18:37 , Dave Niezabitowski wrote:
Go to File > New and the list of templates will pop up. But I don't know how to create a new template or overwrite the default.
How does one do that?
On linux and os x, the user defined templates are in .inkscape/ templates. One just needs to save a document named default.svg there and this will override the default document. creating new templates is just a matter of saving svg documents in this directory (with names that do not contain funny characters such as spaces) On windows the process is probably the same. I just don't know where the templates directory is.
Abrolag wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2007 15:35:11 +0100 Daniel Hulme <art@...1790...> wrote:
prefer to deal with the whole product in one program if possible. In Gimp there is an item in the lower left corner that resets the scales in e.g., inches. Does Inkscape have a corresponding setting somewhere?
File -> Document Properties -> Page -> Default units does what I think you want. Of course, if you want to change the setting for all new documents, create a document from the default template, change the setting, and save it over the default template.
Hmm. So where *is* the default document?
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Found it in windows.
Your Templates are located: \Program Files\Inkscape\share\templates
Open up the Default.svg make your changes and save.
It's also the place you'd want to save any newly created templates (Book Cover, CD Cover etc.)
jiho wrote:
On 2007-May-28 , at 18:37 , Dave Niezabitowski wrote:
Go to File > New and the list of templates will pop up. But I don't know how to create a new template or overwrite the default.
How does one do that?
On linux and os x, the user defined templates are in .inkscape/ templates. One just needs to save a document named default.svg there and this will override the default document. creating new templates is just a matter of saving svg documents in this directory (with names that do not contain funny characters such as spaces) On windows the process is probably the same. I just don't know where the templates directory is.
Abrolag wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2007 15:35:11 +0100 Daniel Hulme <art@...1790...> wrote:
prefer to deal with the whole product in one program if possible. In Gimp there is an item in the lower left corner that resets the scales in e.g., inches. Does Inkscape have a corresponding setting somewhere?
File -> Document Properties -> Page -> Default units does what I think you want. Of course, if you want to change the setting for all new documents, create a document from the default template, change the setting, and save it over the default template.
Hmm. So where *is* the default document?
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On Mon, 28 May 2007 19:18:42 +0200 jiho <jo.irisson@...155...> wrote:
On 2007-May-28 , at 18:37 , Dave Niezabitowski wrote:
Go to File > New and the list of templates will pop up. But I don't know how to create a new template or overwrite the default.
How does one do that?
On linux and os x, the user defined templates are in .inkscape/ templates. One just needs to save a document named default.svg there and this will override the default document. creating new templates is just a matter of saving svg documents in this directory (with names that do not contain funny characters such as spaces) On windows the process is probably the same. I just don't know where the templates directory is.
Thanks. That's very helpful :)
Inkscape expects the templates in inkscape/share/templates
either in the global one or in the user specific inkscape directory.
HTH,
Adib.
Dave Niezabitowski schrieb:
Go to File > New and the list of templates will pop up. But I don't know how to create a new template or overwrite the default.
How does one do that?
Abrolag wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2007 15:35:11 +0100 Daniel Hulme <art@...1790...> wrote:
prefer to deal with the whole product in one program if possible. In Gimp there is an item in the lower left corner that resets the scales in e.g., inches. Does Inkscape have a corresponding setting somewhere?
File -> Document Properties -> Page -> Default units does what I think you want. Of course, if you want to change the setting for all new documents, create a document from the default template, change the setting, and save it over the default template.
Hmm. So where *is* the default document?
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