# New Inkscape Templates

**URL:** <https://forum.fritzing.org/t/new-inkscape-templates/7479>\
**Category:** parts help\
**Created:** [October 13, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.fritzing.org/t/new-inkscape-templates/7479 "2019-10-13T13:57:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![vanepp](https://forum.fritzing.org/user_avatar/forum.fritzing.org/vanepp/32/4426_2.png) [@vanepp](https://forum.fritzing.org/u/vanepp)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.fritzing.org/t/new-inkscape-templates/7479/2 "2019-10-13T17:12:59Z")

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Wray very very welcome aboard 🙂 . I’m Peter, Inkscape ignoramous, much better part maker. 3 years ago when I started I didn’t know what an svg was, nor had I ever used an svg editor. I still use about %1 of Inkscape usually in a very non standard manner (xml editor is my friend 🙂 ). I regularly have to reset the preferences.xml file after I do something (what I have no idea) that changes Inkscape’s behaviour in an odd and undesirable way (such as causing copies between svgs to occur as images rather than xml), so I hope you are up for lots of ignorant questions. There is a post about some of what we know about Inkscape here, feel free to add to / correct it:

> [@Inkscape Tips and Tricks](http://forum.fritzing.org/t/inkscape-tips-and-tricks/4192):
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> Just thought I would start a thread to share a few of my tips and tricks to working with Inkscape to produce new parts/boards for Fritzing. (please feel free to add your tips and corrections) Setting up Inkscape. Set transformation parameters. Edit/Preferences/Behaviour/Transformations Disable “Scale Stroke Width” (makes it easier to change size of holes in rings, etc) Disable “Scale Rounded Corners in Rectangles” (makes adjusting custom PCB size more consistent) Enable “Optimized” Store…

That said I’ve downloaded your archive and had a quick look and see some changes that are desirable. You are correct the template files on the web site are a disaster. They are old, dimensioned in px from 72dpi Illustrator. They load correctly in Fritzing (because it will guess, sometimes incorrectly what dpi to use), but in modern Inkscape they are wrong. I have been working on a corrected set of templates, but been distracted by other tasks. Currently upgrading the parts checking script at

> **[GitHub - vanepp/FritzingCheckPart](https://github.com/vanepp/FritzingCheckPart)**
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> Contribute to vanepp/FritzingCheckPart development by creating an account on GitHub.

to only check the part (and do a better job of that) so it can be added to TravisCI on the parts repository tool chain to check parts submitted for inclusion in the repo, then to fix up the parts factory to emit parts with the correct scale and line values. I’ll work on modifying your current example svgs in to something that matches the part file format here:

> **[2.1 Part file format](https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app/wiki/2.1-Part-file-format)**
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> Fritzing desktop application. Contribute to fritzing/fritzing-app development by creating an account on GitHub.

and the graphics standards here:

[http://fritzing.org/fritzings-graphic-standards/](http://fritzing.org/fritzings-graphic-standards/)

and either post them here or make a pull request on github as you choose. Hopefully we can come up with something that could replace the current template files on the web site (possibly once the web site clean up is finished, I understand it is in bad shape currently as is most of Fritzing).

Peter

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