1:52 p.m.
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?
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2:29 p.m.
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?
--
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Able Indexing and Typesetting
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Satisfaction guaranteed.
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2:35 p.m.
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.
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3:34 p.m.
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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4:37 p.m.
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?
5:18 p.m.
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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5:59 p.m.
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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6:08 p.m.
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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9:33 p.m.
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 :)
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