I came over from CS6 Illustrator. When I select NEW I should be able to select a size width and height plus select the transparent background. I get no choice when I open NEW and the resulting page contains a white background which won't work for my purposes. How do I open NEW and get to select the size and select transparent background?

When I click on NEW I see a sudden page load but nano-second and its gone as if rushing past those choices to open the same page-sized template.

Any guidance would be appreciated. Two weeks ago when I did a demo of Inkscape I was given the choice to decide the size and to select transparent background and now not.

Thank in advance...

Hi.

Inkscape loads in the default template svg.
You can set up your document in the properties Shift+Ctrl+D
and there is a way to save it as the default template.
Already discussed somewhere here, although I haven't tried it -you need to save it somewhere in inkscape/share/templates I guess. Others may clarify.

By the way the white rendered for the background is transparent. In 0.92 you will be able to set it to checkerboard instead of a solid colour.

Thank you for your guidance. You are officially my hero.

You are welcome!