Cant seem to see content of inkscape file

Question

I worked on some design on inkscape and something weird happened. I can no longer see the contents for file when i open inkscape. All I see I blank whitespace, I don't even see the black rectangular borders I used to see before. When I look at the svg file in finder I can see the contents in the file thumbnail but once i open in inkscape I dont see anything. I tried fitting the page to the content and changing width and height of the document and nothing happened.

I am new to inkscape so this is confusing to me. Anybody have any ideas how to rectify this?

Without you sharing the file, this is difficult to diagnose. You may try tabbing to select and explore objects, or using View-Display Mode-Outline to see if your objects became transparent somehow. — Juancho, Apr 11 '22 at 15:40
@Juancho this is the link to the file https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BjpCYpimNOZikmM5c7n1NAhvxxkDUPy_/view?usp=sharing — user3775998, Apr 11 '22 at 16:17
@user3775998: You can get more details here: https://chat.inkscape.org — s.ouchene, Apr 12 '22 at 17:28

s.ouchene · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-12T08:14:53.753

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Open your document in Inkscape then press 5 to zoom to the page (or using the menu: View → Zoom → Zoom Page).

You should see the drawing:

edited Apr 12 '22 at 08:14

answered Apr 12 '22 at 08:09

s.ouchene

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thanks a lot. i can see the contents now but cant seem to select anything. any ideas? – user3775998 Apr 12 '22 at 09:35
@user3775998: I can select the objects on that document. BTW which version of Inkscape are you using? – s.ouchene Apr 12 '22 at 09:54
my version is 1.1.2 – user3775998 Apr 12 '22 at 14:03
@user3775998: I have tested that on version 1.1.2 and I can select the object and move them around. Try selecting the objects using the menu: **Object** > **Objects**. Select the items from the dialog. – s.ouchene Apr 12 '22 at 14:22
am using mac os monterrey. what OS are u using? – user3775998 Apr 12 '22 at 14:46
@user3775998: I am using Ubuntu 20.04 – s.ouchene Apr 12 '22 at 14:47
feel like its something to do with macOS as i have tried it on 2 macs and the same thing happens – user3775998 Apr 12 '22 at 14:50

Cant seem to see content of inkscape file

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