Hello

I am new user of Inkscape and I am having some issues, even with the online manual's help. In the past I have used a number of apps like Visio, OpenOffice, DIA, etc... One thing that theses app have in common is the ability to create and save (or download and insert) drawings as Templates or Stencils. For example I generate Network Diagrams, Flow Charts, Circuit Diagrams, etc..., and I am trying to figure out how to do this with Inkscape. I found in the user manual a section on Templates but it does not go into any detail about how to generate and save templates or use them other than those that already saved as *.svg files. There are number of CISCO stencil on the net but so far I have not found any that already in *.svg format. Any suggestions are appreciated!

Regards,
Doug

This explanation might be helpful: click.

I don't have much experience with creating templates though, so I don't know whether there is a more user-friendly way of creating and saving them.

I won't repeat the whole bla bla I answered your q with on launchpad but I would like to add here that libreoffice will soon have if it doesn't have some already - support for visio templates. You should check it out... Libreoffice will export PDF and then you can bring that into Inkscape.

Thank you!