HERE'S THE ANSWER - I'm stupid HINT (for who wants error sorting practice) - Read again what little code I actually wrote Yes man is lesser than even Inkscape in progress ANSWER viewBox not viewport (i'd been looking into them a lot last week... well that's my excuse) Sorry for troubling any of you,...

Right on I'm the case! I'm going through the xml and lo and behold the page size that 100% by 100% gives me is the size of the original clone tile I used (I happened to have been working with a massive inkscape window (each clone was 1000 x 724 pixels... now how on earth am I going to fix this!!!!!!...

Hey there!

After I go in and set the XML I come out to find I have a MASSIVE document page size!

I also resized the doc properties manually.

I'm just reinstalling inkscape...

Just to add The svgs are on the index page of http://www.gamemorize.com The problem is with the first one, resize your window and refresh and you'll see how the second one resizes correctly but not the first one. Before uploading I changed the xml width/height in notepad. But there is still some pro...

The following is happening... I have a graphic 800 x 240 pixels I change document properties to fit selection I go to the xml editor change width 800 to 100% height 240 to 100% and add viewport 0 0 800 240 on return to my graphic the document size is now completely different. I have done this operat...

Perfect!
Open -> select file -> click show preview, then you can scroll through the files with thumbnails!

perfect cheers!

Is there any way I can preview my svg files before I open them?

So I can get something similar to a thumbnail gallery that we all use for photos.

I'm using Windows 7 64 bit

Any suggestions work arounds much appreciated!