Inkscape Templates Not Working Even When Just Re-Saving a Remarkable Template

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Edit: Creating my own .template file resolved this to my satisfaction. See the last comment for code to generate a Cornell template with procedural line spacing.

Hello,

I am designing custom templates in Inkscape but my Remarkable 2 does not display what I designed. This happens even when I just open and re-save a Remarkable template in Inkscape. I would like a solution which does not require downloading custom tools. Is there something with the distance calculation format in Remarkable SVGs I am not aware of?

Base, PNG, and SVG comparisons are attached.

Chief Differences on the Remarkable:

• PNG templates are zoomed in slightly too much
• SVG (plain) templates are zoomed out the point of being a sub-page
• Sometimes templates are incredibly zoomed in, but I do not have a replication procedure
• Lines are not as visible
• Infinite scroll is broken on Inkscape templates

Replication Protocol:
Configure the Remarkable for SSH. SCP /usr/share/remarkable/templates/P Margin large.svg to your computer. Open it in Inkscape. Save as P Test.svg. SCP P Test.svg to the Remarkable as /usr/share/remarkable/templates/P Test.svg Edit templates.json to have the entry

{
  "name": "Test",
  "filename": "P Test",
  "iconCode": "\ue9ff",
  "categories": ["Lines"]
}

and restart xochitl with systemctl restart xochitl.

Settings Tried or Toggled:

• Export as Plain SVG
• 1404x1872 resolution
• 1620x2160 resolution
• Border on/off
• Use antialiasing

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Resolution Update (Still Unresolved):
The zoom level seems to be set by the DPI. By setting the PNG export "pHYs DPI" setting to 226 (image attached) the SVG fully-zoomed-out effect can be replicated with a PNG template. This suggests that something in the SVG resolution is causing the weird SVG zoom

Remarkable reports that the screen supports 226 DPI, so I am surprised that a 226 DPI image causes problems.
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/About-reMarkable-2

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Somehow, after some light formatting, the original and Inkscape SVGs for "P Margin large" are identical. I wonder if this has to do with some infinite scrolling situation. Currently debating between editing a non-infinite scroll template to see if the result differs

Thank you to @eternal girder for reminding me that SVGs are raw XML

I am losing my mind. Even when I duplicate the OEM svgs I get the same incorrect display

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The file, rather than the file's data seems to control the SVG scaling size. There must be additional configuration beyond the template file and templates.json. Consider the two entries for a template named "Test" that is supposed to duplicate the "Margin large" template.

{
  "name": "Test",
  "filename": "P Margin large duplicate",
  "iconCode": "\ue9ff",
  "categories": ["Test"]
}
``` gives a zoomed out SVG as shown in the first post of this thread, despite having identical data to "Margin large." However, using the original file like so

{
"name": "Test",
"filename": "P Margin large",
"iconCode": "\ue9ff",
"categories": ["Test"]
}

Lmao finally found a reddit thread that talked about this, also with no solution
https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/1caxli9/comment/l1q20bx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/yk51ac/custom_templates_and_infinite_scrolling/