The Book of Inkscape

3.2 Document Templates

When you run Inkscape, it automatically creates a new document for you, based on the default template. Inkscape’s window cannot exist without some document loaded into it, so if you don’t give it some existing document to load, it will create a new one for you.

If you need to create an empty document from a window where another document is being edited, just press or go to the File ▸ New submenu. This submenu lists a number of document templates for new documents. The default template—the one that you call up by —is the first ...