Working faster with custom templates

If you use Inkscape regularly, after a while, repeating the same tasks over and over again is inevitable. You might create one business card after the other or draw icons of the same size every day. This is why, when you create a new document, Inkscape offers to create it from a template to ease your work. There are a number of default templates, including standard paper sizes, the mentioned business card size, and even templates to create seamless pattern designs.

And apart from these, you can create your own custom templates for tasks that you work with regularly. If you know that one task is repeated frequently, and you know you will keep on repeating it in the future, it might be worth creating a template for it. A template will save you time and energy, and it will become an important part of your workflow in no time.

Creating your own custom template

A template file is very simple to design. It is nothing else, just an Inkscape SVG...