Inkscape Explained: Page Borders & Formatting

In this video I'll be going over formatted the document page and borders, and everything else in the "Document Properties" menu.

This tutorial is for Inkscape version 0.48 and is intended to teach you how to use the software.

[gxexrxmxaxnx]

Hey, nick. I think your tutorials are really helpful and more people deserve to know about them. I strongly reccommend you make your channel more public in some way, posting it in a design blog, subreddit, even making a channel trailer. Cheers!

[deborc]

Oh, gosh this is a fantastic video. You are easy to follow! You are a natural teacher.

[keesufairies]

i should have just followed inkscape explained from the beginning, everything is so clear now. thanks

[thomaskleven]

Is there a way to set your defaults to a custom setting instead of having to set your defaults every time you start up Inkscape? When I set my Default settings then close down Inkscape and reopen I then find that all of my previous settings are wiped out completely.

[helynoftroy]

Ur an awesome instructor. U solved my issue within 10 seconds of this video and even mentioned business cards which is what I am doing. I did a pdf image and not an png file....ah thank u Nick!

[germona]

Hi Nick, I know this is an older video and i followed a lot of your logo making video's back in the days, so i got a little more familiar with inkscape since then, so thank you for that.
Today however i stumbled over a problem, i am not able to fix.
I would like to print out a fret-board for a lap steel guitar on an A4-size document in landscape orientation.
As you know the frets on a fret-board of a guitar get narrower the closer you come to the bridge, that is where your hand would pick the strings.

So i had a calculated list of the exact distances for those frets online. So i started drawing just simple straight vertical lines with the distances from that list. I started with a guide line at 0 mm the next real line at 33 mm, the next on 63 mm from zero etcetera, to end up on the twelfth fret, witch is exactly one octave higher at 91.5 mm.
Next step was to save the file and print it out.

Unfortunately the print out was not correct, the lines where somehow cropped. The distances from the left page border where completely off.
I have tried everything, from grouping the lines, save as pdf, png, loading the svg into a libreoffice word document, no margins etcetera. Nothing seems to work.

So my question is do you know how to print lets say 10 vertical lines at a specific different distance from the page border, and then print them as they where drawn in Inkscape.
Your help would very much be appreciated.
Greetings from Belgium.
Jean

[rookieblue]

So many great tutorials on GIMP and Inkscape, thank you for making some helpful videos! And you get right to the point which is awesome, im learning very quickly!

[blood.mirror]

Thanks for the tutorials. I really like it when you give the use case examples instead of just giving a bare minimum description. Good stuff. I have a suggestion for your video description of your simple line art design tutorial. When I started with that tutorial, I got kinda got stuck at the start when I couldn't figure out why your Inkscape work area didn't have the visible rectangle. I was worried about the output formatting not being right since I didn't know what you had set for your work area, as well. I had to search for a bit to figure it out. Maybe include a link to this video in that video description and all your other Inkscape tutorials starting without the visible rectangle to help beginners avoid this confusion. Thanks!

P.S. The object at 5:32 I didn't think was ugly. Before you called it ugly in the video I was thinking to myself how kinda cool it looked. LOL.

[VishalMody]

Very nice tutorial. Can you make a video on how to cartoonify a photograph?

[josephyawus]

This helpful. I really want to learn Inkscape. Thanks Nick.

[SwapneelGhosh]

Hey nick that weird shape you unified actually looks like a guy giving a flying kick in karate or something! Great tutorial. :)

[AutoSpaceCo]

Thanks for all your tutorials Nick, you make it very easy learn and understand. Just started to get into web development, graphic design and other aspects of tech and I am completely falling in love with it. Can't believe I didn't get into this earlier! I've realized I have a true passion and capability for this. I wanted to ask, what do you recommend to do in order to get some type of course to cover, front end and back end web development. I want to either find an affordable school or online courses/resources, just don't know the best route to go. would you be able to help me out in this?

[chinmaya_kl]

Thanks man for explaining these things. It helped me alot

[skepticmoderate]

Hey. Just so you know: the axonometric grid is at 30 and 60 degrees, not 45.

[jotampa]

This "Inkscape explained" series is really good, thanks for that. At around 11:00 there the axonometric grid is at 30 degrees and not 45, right? The interface has 30 written there, and I am assuming that is the angle you are talking about. Also, the lines do not look like they are at 45 degrees, really.

Another question: bleed? I was hoping to see that mentioned here. It's something that concerns print people more, I know, but it would be useful to know.

[johnhall]

Just ran across your videos and they have been very helpful. Thanks for putting in the effort to share your knowledge. My question is on page formatting. If I set the size to 16" x 20" will it print out on 8 1/2" x 11" paper at 1:1 scale. How does this work? Thanks again for all your effort. I think I am going to learn a lot.

[iwGray]

hey is there a way to download your custom interface?

[dillonsmith]

Hey Nick, I can't find anything online about putting an actual border around a small label design, or making a stroke with a bit of thickness in the exact size and shape of the document's page boarder placed exactly right so that it creates a perfectly balanced border for the label. I can't figure it out. Always looks uneven, not centered, or the wrong size. Gotta be perfect, all three.

[mibrahim]

You are the best man .. THANKS A LOT <3

[HARRY-hkyb]

Hey Nick When will you show your face on youtube?? You are great person.