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When editing document properties in Inkscape, I have a long, hard-coded pre-determined list of random document sizes (see illustration below). I want to add to, and remove from, said list.

The issue has been mentioned a few times on launchpad (bug 171808 and 926209), and in the former a user says “This should be closed as fixed. It all is available in trunk.”

That was written in 2012, and it is not available in the current stable Inkscape (0.92.1 / r15371).

Question: How can I download, edit and compile the source code, so I can remove and add document sizes to my Inkscape?

Inkscape document properties

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I've spent too much time, but I've found the answer myself.

  1. Go to inkscape.org and download source
  2. Open src/ui/widget/page-sizer.cpp and edit the page sizes

  3. In the directory of the source:

    ./autogen.sh ./configure make make install

To compile there are quite a lot of dependencies. This was where my time was spent, and I had to add unstable sources to fulfil the requirements.

My new page properties dialog

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