{"id":1993,"date":"2025-09-05T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T22:00:44","slug":"inkscape-and-default-document-size-at-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=1993","title":{"rendered":"Inkscape and Default Document Size at Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really liking Inkscape. I wanted to customize it on macOS to make its default document a letter document in portrait (Inkscape ships with the A4 as the default). To make this change:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Open Inkscape<\/strong> and create a new document.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Set the Canvas Size<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Go to <em>File -> Document Properties<\/em> (<code>Shift + Cmd + D<\/code>).<\/li>\n<li>Under the <strong>Page<\/strong> tab:\n<ul>\n<li>Set <strong>Units<\/strong> to <code>in<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Choose <strong>Letter<\/strong> from the preset list, or manually set:\n<ul>\n<li>Width: <code>8.5 in<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Height: <code>11 in<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Save the Document as a Template<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Go to <em>File -> Save As<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Save the file as <code>default.svg<\/code> to a temporary location like your <em>Desktop<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Move the Template to the Correct Folder<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Open Finder and navigate to:<br \/>\n          <code>~\/Library\/Application Support\/org.inkscape.Inkscape\/config\/inkscape\/templates\/<\/code>\n        <\/li>\n<li>If the folder doesn\u2019t exist, create it manually.<\/li>\n<li>Move your <code>default.svg<\/code> file into this folder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Restart Inkscape<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>When you launch Inkscape again, it will use your customized <code>default.svg<\/code> as the starting document \u2014 now with a Letter-sized canvas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really liking Inkscape. I wanted to customize it on macOS to make its default document a letter document in portrait (Inkscape ships with the A4 as the default). To make this change: Open Inkscape and create a new document. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=1993\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}