simulating pages with layers

[Bug Importer]

There is no way to define pages yet. There could be an easy,
SVG-independent, way of doing it. Layers can have sublayers. So it is no
problem to define a toplevel-layer and name it Page1 and then append all
neccessary layers for that page as sublayers. The only two annoying things
are that one cannot select layers the exclusive way (XOR) to automatically
deselect the other layers at the same node. In other words: one cannot
switch pages. Also, one cannot save to PDF and have a page per layer in
that PDF file (possibly selecting the correct layers before saving).

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[Aurium (aurium)]

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Yeah. We realy need it!

A master page will be great too.
A master page will define the global layout. What you define in the master
page will exists in all other pages.

Whow can it be done in SVG?

The master page will be the first <g inkscape:groupmode="page">, so it
will apear below of all inkscape pages to show the background drawing made
on it (but the value must be diferent: inkscape:groupmode="masterpage"). It
must be rendered, but can not be editabe, if the user is not on the master
page edit mode. That cam be made with "sodipodi:insensitive" on the page
<g>.

All the <g inkscape:groupmode="page">'s must copy the attributes from the
<g inkscape:groupmode="masterpage"> tag. It is important to allow the user
to set defalt font family, defalt fill color and other properties on the
master page for all the document.

[Tom Davidson (tjd-mit)]

See bug 171871 for discussion of native support of multiple pages in inkscape. Probably best to focus discussion over there, though this suggestion for a workaround is not really a duplicate.

[cosmin (cosminadrianpopescu)]

For whoever lands here:

Check this extension:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape-pages/files/