Is it possible to have every svg open at the same zoom % ?

Lately mine have been opening at huge random zooms, taking a very long time to load up, enough time for me to walk away and boil a kettle and a make a cuppa.

By default zoom level is saved with the inkscape svg-s.

It is stored in the codes for an example like:



So if you want to open your document zoomed out, save it when zoomed out.

Else, save as plain svg.
If you don't have flowed texts or spiro-splines, powerstrokes from the devbuild.
Plain svg-s don't save the zoom level, and they open more zoomed out as far as I could see.

I've been saving everything at 30% but even when immediately re-opening the zoom will be high.

Off now to read up on the difference between plain svg and whatever it is I've been saving mine as.

Eyesintheskies wrote:I've been saving everything at 30% but even when immediately re-opening the zoom will be high.

To make the zoom level stick, be sure to have some real changes in the file before saving it (as 'Inkscape SVG') - otherwise the modified zoom level won't be written back to the file (you could e.g. hide and show again the current layer).

I'd also recommend to check whether you have (unintentionally) turned on the 'sticky zoom' feature (see 'Inkscape Preferences > Miscellaneous: [ ] Zoom when Window is resized', also accessible by toggling the small (zoom) icon in the upper right corner of the canvas area, where horizontal ruler and vertical scrollbar meet).

Thanks for the replies.

I found making a small change, and then saving and closing with a much lower zoom, then locked that new zoom info in. So next time I opened up the zoom was opening at my preferred selection. Very happy.