This folder contains the templates for new documents created in

Inkscape. You will normally see them listed in the File > New

submenu. A template may store any document-specific settings (such as

initial zoom and view, paper size, background and borders, metadata,

window geometry, grid and guide settings, export hints) as well as any

objects. To add a new template, simply save or copy it to this folder;

nothing else is required.

Procedural templates are located in the adjacent 'extension'

directory. By convention, they begin with 'empty'.

Internationalization:

Files of the mask default.*.svg are the translations of default.svg

template into different languages. The default.svg itself is in

English. These translations contain a translated name of the default

layer and possibly different canvas size. Each language version of

Inkscape will only use one of these templates and ignore the rest.

These files are internationalized the same way as

share/filters/filters/svg The i18n.py script called from the makefile

will extract strings from the *.svg files into a *.svg.h

file. Intltool is then able to extracts these strings just like from

normal .h files.

The internationalized default files (A4 only) are created using the

PERL script "create_defaults.pl" and are based on default.svg. To add

a new language, add it to the database at the beginning of the PERL

script. (You'll also need to edit Makefile.am and the appropriate 'po'

file).