The new feature of multiple pages allows the creation of presentations in an easier way. However, sometimes you need to copy the exact content of the page to the next one (e.g. to simulate slide transitions). It would be nice to have the option to "Duplicate page." So far I am doing it by creating a rectangle of the size of the page, then copying everything contained in the rectangle and pasting it on the next page, then removing the rectangles. I noticed this results in misalignment of the objects with respect to the previous page when I export the PDF. Any idea of how to do this better? Or does the feature of page duplication exist already?  Thanks

I am sure there is a proper ( or will a proper ) way to do it.

However I wrote this extension a while ago to either copy or clone to new pages.

The pages have to be added by clicking the add page button on the page tool bar first.

https://inkscape.org/~inklinea/%E2%98%85page-watermark-inkscape-12

Perhaps you can break it ? :)

Maybe this:

Thank you Tyler, that's a nice solution. I hope they add a "Duplicate page" button in the future 👍

Thank you for the help Tyler. Love the hack 😁

There's a new option "Paste...On Page" which seems to work well. You just need to persuade Inkscape which page is 'current'. I just draw a shape on the target page, delete the shape then "paste on page".

@Ianscape that seems to work quite well 😊 Thanks for mentioning it. For the persuading, I think it's enough first to copy whatever you want to copy (Ctrl+C), then switch to Pages tool and click on the page where you want to paste what you copied, then Edit -> Paste... -> On page and it should be pasted on the page you selected.

Sadly, that's unusable for me - I need to copy elements across ALL pages FREQUENTLY. You can't just copy them one by one each time in a way that involves two or three steps.

I'm really struggling to use inkscape - multipages don't work, links don't work (get rasterized when exported to pdf)...

Here's a workaround for duplication on every page.

Draw a rectangle over an entire page. Create a group from this single rectangle [ctrl+g]. Clone the group [alt+d]. Select the parent [shift+d] and move it off the page. [Enable Snapping] [Snap to: Page borders]. Copy the clone and paste it to every page in your document. Changes to the parent group will be duplicated on every page. Hide the parent rectangle for export or print.

@Paddy_CAD thanks, but I think that we still need to build a single command instead of resorting to multi-step workarounds.

I was suprised to find someone had made a video using my extension ( posted above )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_7Fn1xzflY

It shows how they used it to copy over pages.

The relevant part of the video is at 5:50

@inklinea, yep, exactly. I will try to modify it so it can be assigned to a single shortcut instead of going through menus/dialogs. I'm new to inkscape scripting, but hopefully it won't be too hard.

You don't need to modify the extension:

All extensions appear in the Inkscape shortcut page in Edit>Preferences>Keyboard>Shortcuts.

There are always 2 shortcuts for each extension. 

Standard and .noprefs

The standard one launches the extension in the normal way ( if there is a gui it will appear )

the .noprefs one just runs the extension with the last settings without the appearance of any gui.

@inklinea oh wow that's really cool. I love when programs provide such keyboard-oriented features. Thank you for showing it.