Trying to change the canvas size on start up page.

Asked by Jeanine

The box canvas size some time is not large enough for what I want to do. it there a way to change the size? How can I make it Bigger?

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) said :
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Hi Jeanine,

the size of the page area can be changed in the document properties dialog. Go to File -> Document properties to change them for the current document.

If you want to change the default page size (i.e. different from A4 or letter, whichever one you're using), then you need to create a new default.svg template. Do so by:

- Opening a new document
- Changing the page size
- Saving the document as "default.svg" (or if you're using a language different from English, insert the two-letter-code for your language into the file name like this: default.de.svg ) to the directory "templates" in the folder which is listed at Edit -> Preferences -> System: user config.

Inkscape will use the new file as the default template. If you choose a different file name, but the same directory, you will find your new template under File -> Templates.

Kind regards,
 Maren

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