Actually it worked by opening the directory in Preferences>System and saving the symbol source file
Setting the title as metadata is not mandatory, if the field is empty it takes by default the SVG file title.
Now I have some troubles setting the labels to each symbol but that's not a big deal, I will try to find a workaround and save different files to organize them instead of having a single big symbol library and browse through labels.
Since last year I work very often with symbols in Inkscape. I created my own categories, but the default categories such as "United States National Parks" or "Logic Symbols" are still visible.
I would like to remove them but they are not svg files on the symbol folder.
Does anybody know how to remove those default symbols ?
In the Preferences>System you will see the user files directories and the core Inkscape directories... the symbols files will be in the core Inkscape directories.
I'm using Mint, so my screenshot will probably not be useful for you.
It was not super easy to find since I installed it from Flatpak on Ubuntu, and I needed to be superuser to delete the files, but eventually it worked. Now I can have a clean symbol dropdown menu. I have no idea why there are still those ugly and unuseful symbols by default...
Beyond the Basics Symbol library in Inkscape 1.2
Inkscape.org
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to build a set of symbol library in Inkscape 1.2. I'm using the snap version in Ubuntu 22.04.
The problem is, I cannot find the right path for the the symbol folder.
I tried to create a "symbols" folder in ./config/inkscape as suggested here but it didn't work.
The documentation in Help>Manual from Tavmjong Bah is really out to date, and the wiki is still at version 0.92...
Does anybody know how this works in Inkscape 1.2 please? Any help is appreciated.
Thank you very much
Livio
Symbols are saved in the svg file you are currently working on.
That svg file can then be copied to the ~/.config/inkscape/symbols folder.
The name of the svg file will then appear in the Symbols panel dropdown when inkscape is reopened.
However, I don't use the snap release - so I can't test on that version.
Works on Ubuntu 22, using Inkscape 1.1.2 installed and Inkscape 1.2 appimage.
I would:
Thank you for your reply.
Actually it worked by opening the directory in Preferences>System and saving the symbol source file
Setting the title as metadata is not mandatory, if the field is empty it takes by default the SVG file title.
Now I have some troubles setting the labels to each symbol but that's not a big deal, I will try to find a workaround and save different files to organize them instead of having a single big symbol library and browse through labels.
Thank you again
Best regards
Hi everyone,
Since last year I work very often with symbols in Inkscape. I created my own categories, but the default categories such as "United States National Parks" or "Logic Symbols" are still visible.
I would like to remove them but they are not svg files on the symbol folder.
Does anybody know how to remove those default symbols ?
Thank you very much
Best regards
In the Preferences>System you will see the user files directories and the core Inkscape directories... the symbols files will be in the core Inkscape directories.
I'm using Mint, so my screenshot will probably not be useful for you.
Hi Tyler,
Thank you so much for you answer. You were right, there was a symbol folder in the core Inkscape directory, here exactly :
/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.inkscape.Inkscape/current/active/files/share/inkscape
It was not super easy to find since I installed it from Flatpak on Ubuntu, and I needed to be superuser to delete the files, but eventually it worked. Now I can have a clean symbol dropdown menu. I have no idea why there are still those ugly and unuseful symbols by default...
Thank you again,
Best regards
Livio