Recently when I opened Inkscape, it reported that my preferences file was corrupt and settings were reverting to defaults and would not be saved for the session.

I closed out of the session and went an renamed my previous preferences file (so I could refer back to it later), then reopened Inkscape

I new preferences file was generated (as expected) however, now when files are saved, each name->value pair is being written on a line of it's own



is there a setting somewhere that I haven't seen to make it save inline instead?

more like this :

Hello:
Try this: Go to Inkscape preferences and then Input>Output: see if changing something there modify the SVG output.

On the other hand, It had happened to me that when opening svg files from different sources, Inkscape changes the space bar, tabs and/or carriage returns. But I don't know how to describe it more.

Sometimes, even changing the style of an object a little, the style attribute is filled of more code than expected... but this another talk, I guess.

Since the config files are just text files, you could share the content of your old or new configuration files to see if there is a diference. In which OS you are?... because in Linux you could use a "diff" command to compare the 2 files (I have never tried ).

Other way: Save as optimized SVG. Last resource: try with a good text editor.

thanks hulf2012

Settings -> Input/Output -> SVG Output -> XML formatting ... Inline attributes