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August 19, 2015, 01:34:25 AM
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Marion

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Can i reposition the page? If i choose a bigger size page part of it disappears from the screen. I would like the whole page more in the middel and the sliding bars are not moveable.

August 19, 2015, 01:56:11 AM
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Ctrl+mouse scrollwheel up/down zooms in and out
Mouse scrollwheel up/down slides the page up and down
Shift+mouse scrollwheel up/down slides page left and right
Holding the scrollwheel down and moving the mouse repositions the page.

There are also interesting shortcuts. If you get lost, Numpad 5 centers the page.

See also this great manual (by one of the Inkscape developers if I'm not mistaken): http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/ and especially, for this question, http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/View.html.

It might be worthwhile reading the first chapters of the manual. It's written for an older version of Inkscape, but still mostly accurate. Most questions are answered there actually :)

August 19, 2015, 02:36:06 AM
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To fix your most immediate problem, you can use the Selection tool, and over an empty area of the canvas, click-drag the mouse past the edge of the screen.  That will force the canvas to be panned.  ("panning" is what you're talking about, in Inkscape language)  Or you can drag an object over there.

I would suggest reading about it in the manual, except that panning controls were changed with the current version 0.91, and the manual has not been updated to 0.91 yet.  But I think some of the controls still work.  Here's a quick way to get an idea about it.  Help menu > Key and Mouse Reference.  Click that and it will open up a webpage with all the key and mouse controls.  Find the section on panning, and experiment!

As bartovan suggested, zooming is a way to bring the whole page into view.  But you should understand a few things about zooming.  If you have a large page size, such as the default size A4, and you put the canvas at 100% zoom, you can't see all the page borders.  100% zoom is the true image size.  (You can see the zoom amount in the bottom, right corner of the window.)

When you first open a new blank document in Inkscape, the page size is A4, and the canvas is at 35% zoom.  (This is one of my pet peeves about Inkscape!)  The only reason I can think of why it's like that, is so that you can see the whole page on the screen.

However, if you draw your image at 35% zoom, and if you save it that way, then when you look at your image somewhere else besides Inkscape (in a picture viewer or uploaded to the internet) it will be Huge!

Actually, there's no real reason you need to see the page borders at all, until the very end of finishing your drawing.  There's an option (Document Properties > Page tab at the bottom) to turn off the border. 

I usually work without the border showing.  Then when I'm finished drawing, I select my whole image, and then go to that same page in Document Properties, to the Custom Size section, and click Resize Page to Content.  And then click Resize Page to Drawing or Selection.  That fits the page border perfectly to the drawing.  And you can see in that section in Doc Prop where you can set margins, if you need blank space between your drawing and the border.

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August 19, 2015, 09:39:17 PM
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Thanks bartovan and Brynn.
So i can choose not seeing the border and draw and when finished select it all and finish choosing A4 and it will be ok?
About the png not being transparent i moved it into PS and removed the background there but exporting it will be much better.
Thanks for all the help again. :ty1:

August 20, 2015, 04:19:24 AM
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So i can choose not seeing the border and draw and when finished select it all and finish choosing A4 and it will be ok?

No, that's not what I meant.

Inkscape always opens a blank document with the A4 size (whether the page borders are showing or not).  That's the default size.  So you don't have to choose it at all if you want it A4 size (unless you previously changed it and you need to change it back) .

But I think you might have not found (or understood) what I mean.  Document Properties > Page tab > Custom size is below the Page Size area.  To do what I was talking about will make the page a custom size, and fit your drawing exactly, no matter how large or small your drawing (or selected object) is.  So if you use that technique, your page will not be A4, unless you did a lot of measuring, and made your drawing A4 size.

If you particularly need your drawing to be A4, or any of those sizes that are offered, you should not use Resize Page to Content.   (I rarely need a page to be one of those sizes in the Page Size area, so that's why I usually keep the border hidden.  But if I ever needed my page to be a certain size, I would  have the page border displayed.)

Custom size means anything except one of the options in the Page Size area (rather than anything besides A4).
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