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Page set up with margins and guides in Inkscape 0.46

Asked by Colin

I'd like to setup page margins and guides from document properties. As a professional graphic designer, I also need the option of adding bleeds and slugs. This is available and quickly setup in Corel, Indesign etc and I'd like a default page to be made available with say 10mm margins and an option for an additional 3mm bleed with guides showing this.
Can you help, it's the only thing preventing me using Inkscape more often as page setup is too slow. Otherwise a fully featured program that excels.

Is there going to support for Pantone spot colours?

Colin

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Best Krzysztof Kosinski (tweenk) said : 		#1

I don't know whether this is what you need:
1. Set up the guides and save the empty document as an Inkscape SVG.
2. Put this file in the template folder: [Inkscape installation folder]\share\templates\ on Windows, [your home dir]/.inkscape/templates/ on Linux (and probably MacOS, but I'm not sure). You can also delete stuff you don't need from there.
3. This file will now show up in the File > New menu, which shows available templates.

If I correctly understand what a bleed is, I think you can achieve the same effect by applying a rectangular clipping mask on all the objects on the page. I don't know what a slug is (the Wikipedia article doesn't give me sufficient insight).
As for the Pantone colors, there are two issues:
* SVG stores colors in the RGB colorspace only.
* If you want to use Pantone colors and call them Pantone, you need to buy a license, so they probably can't be supported in open source software - read more here: http://www.linux.com/articles/49236

There is certainly going to be better support for CMYK, HSL and Lab colorspaces at some point, but I can't say when will this happen.

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Colin (system3) said : 		#2

Thanks Krzysztof (Chris) Kosiński, that solved my question.

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Michael Smith (polaris-smith68) said : 		#3

Hi Just downloaded Inkscape--it is brilliant--how do I set up a page which is A4 so that it comes up every time I go to do some art work?? I am used to using Corel12 and design business cards and bookmarks, generally I set up 10 cards, 90 X 55mm per A4 sheet when I do 'short run' prints.

Thanks in advance

Michael

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Ryan Lerch (ryanlerch) said : 		#4

All the templates that are used in inkscape are in the following directory:

<your inkscape directory>/share/templates

the inkscape directory varies accoding to OS, etc...

the default.svg in there is the template that is used every time you start
up inkscape. so edit it, add your guides, change the size of the document
etc, then save it.

hope this helps,
ryanlerch

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Michael Smith <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Question #29096 on Inkscape changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/29096
>
> Michael Smith posted a new comment:
> Hi Just downloaded Inkscape--it is brilliant--how do I set up a page
> which is A4 so that it comes up every time I go to do some art work?? I
> am used to using Corel12 and design business cards and bookmarks,
> generally I set up 10 cards, 90 X 55mm per A4 sheet when I do 'short
> run' prints.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Michael
>
> --
> You received this question notification because you are an answer
> contact for Inkscape.
>

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Michael Smith (polaris-smith68) said : 		#5

It sure does, thanks and have a good day.

Michael

Ryan Lerch wrote:
> Question #29096 on Inkscape changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/29096
>
> Ryan Lerch posted a new comment:
> All the templates that are used in inkscape are in the following
> directory:
>
> <your inkscape directory>/share/templates
>
> the inkscape directory varies accoding to OS, etc...
>
> the default.svg in there is the template that is used every time you start
> up inkscape. so edit it, add your guides, change the size of the document
> etc, then save it.
>
> hope this helps,
> ryanlerch
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Michael Smith <
> <email address hidden>> wrote:
>
>
>> Question #29096 on Inkscape changed:
>> https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/29096
>>
>> Michael Smith posted a new comment:
>> Hi Just downloaded Inkscape--it is brilliant--how do I set up a page
>> which is A4 so that it comes up every time I go to do some art work?? I
>> am used to using Corel12 and design business cards and bookmarks,
>> generally I set up 10 cards, 90 X 55mm per A4 sheet when I do 'short
>> run' prints.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> --
>> You received this question notification because you are an answer
>> contact for Inkscape.
>>
>>
>
>

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Michael Smith (polaris-smith68) said : 		#6

Hi Ryan,

Managed to set up my page thanks to your advice!! In Corel there are
many images available for back grounds, are there such images for
backgrounds etc available for Inkscape??

Just love the program--how do pay for the book on Inkscape which I
would like to buy?? Is it in Australia ??I live in Brisbane.

Stay well

Michael

Michael Smith wrote:
> Question #29096 on Inkscape changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/29096
>
> Michael Smith posted a new comment:
> It sure does, thanks and have a good day.
>
> Michael
>
> Ryan Lerch wrote:
>
>> Question #29096 on Inkscape changed:
>> https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/29096
>>
>> Ryan Lerch posted a new comment:
>> All the templates that are used in inkscape are in the following
>> directory:
>>
>> <your inkscape directory>/share/templates
>>
>> the inkscape directory varies accoding to OS, etc...
>>
>> the default.svg in there is the template that is used every time you start
>> up inkscape. so edit it, add your guides, change the size of the document
>> etc, then save it.
>>
>> hope this helps,
>> ryanlerch
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Michael Smith <
>> <email address hidden>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Question #29096 on Inkscape changed:
>>> https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/29096
>>>
>>> Michael Smith posted a new comment:
>>> Hi Just downloaded Inkscape--it is brilliant--how do I set up a page
>>> which is A4 so that it comes up every time I go to do some art work?? I
>>> am used to using Corel12 and design business cards and bookmarks,
>>> generally I set up 10 cards, 90 X 55mm per A4 sheet when I do 'short
>>> run' prints.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> --
>>> You received this question notification because you are an answer
>>> contact for Inkscape.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

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Michael Smith (polaris-smith68) said : 		#7

Hi Ryan,

In Corel when one goes to 'Text' a box comes up giving you 'Insert Character' does Inkscape has this ability?? Cannot seem to find this in Inkscape. Loving the program-- Michael