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Published inMay 2012
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Bethany Hiitola
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Bethany Hiitola is a working writer and technology geek. With a degree in Scientific and Technical Communications, she's worked as a technical writer and multimedia developer for over 12 yearsshe spends the rest of her time as a wife, mother, gadget geek, and Master of the Household. She's written more user manuals than she can count, essays, novels, and a few technical booksincluding Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers. More details are at her website: bethanyhiitola.com
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Time for action — creating a new custom file size for a postcard

We're going to create a file that will be the exact size for a postcard.

  1. From the Inkscape main menu, select File | New | Default. This opens a file with the default dimensions of A4.
    Time for action — creating a new custom file size for a postcard
  2. Now we want to customize those document dimensions. To do this, go to the main menu and choose File | Document Properties. You'll see the Document Properties window displayed with a number of options for customizing your canvas and printable page, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action — creating a new custom file size for a postcard
  3. To change to the custom postcard size of 7 x 5 inches, we need to change the following fields in the following order: Units to in (Inches), Width to 7, and Height to 5. The changes on the Document Properties window should look similar to the following screenshot:
    Time for action — creating a new custom file size for a postcard

    Remember to change the Units first; otherwise the Width and Height fields will adjust to the new unit of measure and you will have to readjust them.

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    Changing page orientation

    Also note that...

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Published in: May 2012Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849517201

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Bethany Hiitola

Bethany Hiitola is a working writer and technology geek. With a degree in Scientific and Technical Communications, she's worked as a technical writer and multimedia developer for over 12 yearsshe spends the rest of her time as a wife, mother, gadget geek, and Master of the Household. She's written more user manuals than she can count, essays, novels, and a few technical booksincluding Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers. More details are at her website: bethanyhiitola.com
Read more about Bethany Hiitola