The grid is forever tiny and I try to enlarge it in Preferences, to no avail. I move to System to Reset my Preferences to the larger size, but there too the result is zilch. How is it so complicated to do such a simple move ?
Now that you mention it, yes, the grid lines thickness needs to be wider for poor vision: I can hardly distinguish them. My question pertains to the rectangular display: 5 px is way too tiny and I am trying to enlarge it for naught. Do you have suggestiions for both situations? (When I increase spacing, nothing happens.) Thank you for responding Tyler Durden.
That's what I am doing. I increased size to 20 px: no change. I increased it to 50 px: no change> I go to Preferences/System to accept the changes. Nothing happens. I cannot detect NEW that you mentioned. Your recommendation?
Instead of trying a system save I followed your lead and tried in Document Properties. I found no SAVE button but assumed that visible/enabled would save my choices. No luck there either, things remained as before. May I ask what step should be my next?
As recommended by professionals, here we go: Windows 10; Inkscape 1.0.2 -x64 in .exe format; am attaching two screenshots, each with rectangular grid of 50px in both x and y. You can see that the lines are faint. Let me know if I should add anything... Thanks for your interest.
As recommended by professionals, here we go: Windows 10; Inkscape 1.0.2 -x64 in .exe format; am attaching two screenshots, each with rectangular grid of 50px in both x and y. You can see that the lines are faint. Let me know if I should add anything... Thanks for your interest.
When I reread this, it appears that only one screenshot is visible. Yet there is an"s" ending in attachment(s).
I haven't made them; that is what I keep discovering too; they just appear, how, I don't know. Two of them include 50px grid and none is mine. I used both of them to find out if they make changes; no, nothing. I made a new one at 50px but it too failed. .
Have to get back to you because I checked the grids again and, here is the latest: grid825 is now 1 and 1; grid8 is 8 and 8; grid10 is also 8 and 8. I had previously removed the grids and put in mine, but the effort was futile. Maybe Inkscape should be re-installed?
Maybe test first Inkscape ->Preferences->System->Reset Preferences and restart Inkscape. If this won't help you can make your own default Inkscape template or delete the user.xml file to let Inkscape generate a fresh one after restart. Maybe the installation went wrong at a certain point - can't tell.
OK, I removed the exta grids and inserted one of my own (although the ID came up automatically). I restart: no change. Then I look for Preferences in Windows Explorer. I get so far as user/owner; and appdata/roaming/inkscape are nowhere to be seen. Now I can't delete the XML file because it's not there. Wouldn't you opt for a re-install now?
Here is the latest on a tiresome topic: I've uninstalled Inkscape, then downloaded and installed v. 1.1.2. I had hoped for magic... I went to Document Properties, where grid825 resurfaced at 50px; grid8 and grid10 also reappeared. I removed these last two, leaving 825 in place. Sine there is no SAVE button in Doc. Prop. I went to System and made the grid there also 50px. From there I went to Reset Preferences hoping for a save. I closed Inkscape in order for restart to show my changes. No, all grids remained as they were. Now I must ask the Inkscape experts to advise on a next step because this novice must be missing a step...
Here is the latest on a tiresome topic: I've uninstalled Inkscape, then downloaded and installed v. 1.1.2. I had hoped for magic... I went to Document Properties, where grid825 resurfaced at 50px; grid8 and grid10 also reappeared. I removed these last two, leaving 825 in place. Sine there is no SAVE button in Doc. Prop. I went to System and made the grid there also 50px. From there I went to Reset Preferences hoping for a save. I closed Inkscape in order for restart to show my changes. No, all grids remained as they were. Now I must ask the Inkscape experts to advise on a next step because this novice must be missing a step...
If I got your request right you want to make your custom settings the default. I f so go File->Save Template - give it a name etc and enable "Set as default template" and save. This should be the new default.
Your latest tip made me save the templateas default; I had to make the rectangle 100px to be able to distinguish some faint grid. So thank you for that polygon. But now how can one thicken the lines or make them more prominent?
Pretty much nothing you can do about it other than what my first reply already was: Dont use any iterations and stay with "Major grid line every: 1". That´s all we have access to.
From the dev channel: Grid lines are always 1px.
Please go to the Document properties->Grid panel and set the Major grid line color A: to 100
Went to major grid lines and clicked on A for blue; the lines appear quite distinguishable now; so I tried same on minor lines, clicked on A for black, and got nice black lines. Thanks for that bit of advice. One little problem remains: I am not allowed to save my default.gg unless I save in documents; I don't understand that, there are a bunch of defaults with various extensions What's wrong in this respect?
As I opened Inkscape this morning garnaldi was pleasantly surprised: the grid lines (minor black, major blue) made their appearance at the desired size, color, and visibility (100px). Checking the templates folder, another surprise because yesterday my own default.GG wasn't there. So thank you polygon for your assistance.
Beyond the Basics change grid size
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The grid is forever tiny and I try to enlarge it in Preferences, to no avail. I move to System to Reset my Preferences to the larger size, but there too the result is zilch. How is it so complicated to do such a simple move ?
Are you talking about the blue grid line width? I guess it can´t be thicker than with the setting "Major grid line every: 0"
Maybe this:
Now that you mention it, yes, the grid lines thickness needs to be wider for poor vision: I can hardly distinguish them. My question pertains to the rectangular display: 5 px is way too tiny and I am trying to enlarge it for naught. Do you have suggestiions for both situations? (When I increase spacing, nothing happens.) Thank you for responding Tyler Durden.
I click on "new" and enter larger values for spacing.
Again: I guess it can´t be thicker than with the setting "Major grid line every: 0"
That's what I am doing. I increased size to 20 px: no change. I increased it to 50 px: no change> I go to Preferences/System to accept the changes. Nothing happens. I cannot detect NEW that you mentioned. Your recommendation?
Some settings will just be noticeable at certain zoom level:
Instead of trying a system save I followed your lead and tried in Document Properties. I found no SAVE button but assumed that visible/enabled would save my choices. No luck there either, things remained as before. May I ask what step should be my next?
As suggested for all inquiries:
Bonus points, if you:
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As recommended by professionals, here we go: Windows 10; Inkscape 1.0.2 -x64 in .exe format; am attaching two screenshots, each with rectangular grid of 50px in both x and y. You can see that the lines are faint. Let me know if I should add anything... Thanks for your interest.
Looks like 4 different grids over each other? Is this intended?
As recommended by professionals, here we go: Windows 10; Inkscape 1.0.2 -x64 in .exe format; am attaching two screenshots, each with rectangular grid of 50px in both x and y. You can see that the lines are faint. Let me know if I should add anything... Thanks for your interest.
When I reread this, it appears that only one screenshot is visible. Yet there is an"s" ending in attachment(s).Moderator edit to display both thumbnails.
Again: why 4 grids?
I haven't made them; that is what I keep discovering too; they just appear, how, I don't know. Two of them include 50px grid and none is mine. I used both of them to find out if they make changes; no, nothing. I made a new one at 50px but it too failed. .
I'd remove all and start over.
Have to get back to you because I checked the grids again and, here is the latest: grid825 is now 1 and 1; grid8 is 8 and 8; grid10 is also 8 and 8. I had previously removed the grids and put in mine, but the effort was futile. Maybe Inkscape should be re-installed?
Maybe test first Inkscape ->Preferences->System->Reset Preferences and restart Inkscape. If this won't help you can make your own default Inkscape template or delete the user.xml file to let Inkscape generate a fresh one after restart. Maybe the installation went wrong at a certain point - can't tell.
OK, I removed the exta grids and inserted one of my own (although the ID came up automatically). I restart: no change. Then I look for Preferences in Windows Explorer. I get so far as user/owner; and appdata/roaming/inkscape are nowhere to be seen. Now I can't delete the XML file because it's not there. Wouldn't you opt for a re-install now?
You don't need my blessing for that. Hopefully it will work out. Fingers crossed.
Here is the latest on a tiresome topic: I've uninstalled Inkscape, then downloaded and installed v. 1.1.2. I had hoped for magic... I went to Document Properties, where grid825 resurfaced at 50px; grid8 and grid10 also reappeared. I removed these last two, leaving 825 in place. Sine there is no SAVE button in Doc. Prop. I went to System and made the grid there also 50px. From there I went to Reset Preferences hoping for a save. I closed Inkscape in order for restart to show my changes. No, all grids remained as they were. Now I must ask the Inkscape experts to advise on a next step because this novice must be missing a step...
Here is the latest on a tiresome topic: I've uninstalled Inkscape, then downloaded and installed v. 1.1.2. I had hoped for magic... I went to Document Properties, where grid825 resurfaced at 50px; grid8 and grid10 also reappeared. I removed these last two, leaving 825 in place. Sine there is no SAVE button in Doc. Prop. I went to System and made the grid there also 50px. From there I went to Reset Preferences hoping for a save. I closed Inkscape in order for restart to show my changes. No, all grids remained as they were. Now I must ask the Inkscape experts to advise on a next step because this novice must be missing a step...
If I got your request right you want to make your custom settings the default. I f so go File->Save Template - give it a name etc and enable "Set as default template" and save. This should be the new default.
Your latest tip made me save the template as default; I had to make the rectangle 100px to be able to distinguish some faint grid. So thank you for that polygon. But now how can one thicken the lines or make them more prominent?
Pretty much nothing you can do about it other than what my first reply already was: Dont use any iterations and stay with "Major grid line every: 1". That´s all we have access to.
From the dev channel: Grid lines are always 1px.
Please go to the Document properties->Grid panel and set the Major grid line color A: to 100
Went to major grid lines and clicked on A for blue; the lines appear quite distinguishable now; so I tried same on minor lines, clicked on A for black, and got nice black lines. Thanks for that bit of advice. One little problem remains: I am not allowed to save my default.gg unless I save in documents; I don't understand that, there are a bunch of defaults with various extensions What's wrong in this respect?
As I opened Inkscape this morning garnaldi was pleasantly surprised: the grid lines (minor black, major blue) made their appearance at the desired size, color, and visibility (100px). Checking the templates folder, another surprise because yesterday my own default.GG wasn't there. So thank you polygon for your assistance.
Glad it worked out finally.
In order to close this topic, where do I do it?
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