2016-03-12
I've been working on some vector digital art using Inkscape. Each time I had to reset the document properties as none of the defaults fit my needs. So I went ahead & created a new template for my digital art projects. It's a 300x300px square with 1 and 10px grids. The template code appears below, and also included on GitHub.
To add a custom template to your Inkscape application, save the SVG file into the following location, based on your operating system:
- /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/share/inkscape/templates/ folder on a MacOS
- C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\template on Windows
- /home/username/.config/inkscape on Ubuntu (when installed via Snap Store)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- Created with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) -->
<svg
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
width="300px"
height="300px"
viewBox="0 0 300 300">
<defs />
<sodipodi:namedview
id="base"
pagecolor="#ffffff"
bordercolor="#666666"
borderlayer="true"
borderopacity="1.0"
inkscape:pageopacity="0.0"
inkscape:pageshadow="2"
inkscape:zoom="2"
inkscape:cx="150"
inkscape:cy="150"
inkscape:document-units="px"
inkscape:current-layer="layer1"
showgrid="true"
units="px" >
<inkscape:grid
type="xygrid"
id="grid201603121800"
empspacing="1"
color="#000000"
opacity="0.1250"
empcolor="#000000"
empopacity="0.250"
originx="0"
originy="0"
enabled="true"
spacingx="1"
spacingy="1" />
<inkscape:grid
type="xygrid"
id="grid201603121805"
empspacing="10"
color="#ff0000"
opacity="0.125"
empcolor="#ff0000"
empopacity="0.250"
originx="0"
originy="0"
enabled="true" />
</sodipodi:namedview>
<metadata>
<rdf:RDF>
<cc:Work
rdf:about="">
<dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
<dc:type
rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
</cc:Work>
</rdf:RDF>
</metadata>
<inkscape:_templateinfo>
<inkscape:_name>Digital art 300x300</inkscape:_name>
<inkscape:author>makbeta</inkscape:author>
<inkscape:_shortdesc>Template for basic pixel art.</inkscape:_shortdesc>
<inkscape:date>2016-03-12</inkscape:date>
<inkscape:_keywords>digital 300x300</inkscape:_keywords>
</inkscape:_templateinfo>
<g inkscape:label="Layer 1" inkscape:groupmode="layer" id="layer1" />
</svg>