How to have different grid settings in different 'Draw' files?

[MSEscapee]

Hi,

I have two ‘Draw’ files.

One has the grid ‘Resolution’ set at 8 mm Horizontal and 8 mm vertical with 4 subdivisions for both horizontal and vertical.

The other has the grid ‘Resolution’ set at 10 mm Horizontal and 10 mm vertical with 10 subdivisions for both horizontal and vertical.

The problem is that whenever I close one file and then open the other the grid settings in the newly opened file are what they were in the previously opened file so I have to change them to what they need to be for that file.

This problem is comparable to opening a ‘Writer’ file and finding that the page margins were not saved with the file when it was last saved - and are instead the margins that were used in whatever the previously opened ‘Writer’ file were.

Is there a way to make Grid settings in a ‘Draw’ file specific to that file only - so they don’t impact other Draw files?

(I am using LibreOffice 6.4.7.2 on Linux ‘Mint’ 20.3 Cinnamon)

[Lupp]

@MSEscapee

Is there a way to make Grid settings in a ‘Draw’ file specific to that file only - so they don’t impact other Draw files?

I’m afraid the grid properties are for all open drawings per instance the same, and are stored to the user profile when closing that instance.
You may, however, create different user profiles and system links for opening a LibO instance - one per profile.
If you actually want to accept this complication use the path to your
soffice.exe for all the user profiles and append an option pointing to the profile actually to load which needn’t be the one created on installation. The syntax tor such an option is exemplified (here for Win) by
-env:UserInstallation=file:///C:/Users/MyUserName/AppData/Roaming/LibreOffice/up1
Where up1 is the folder containg the subfolder user which shall be used for the instance.
You can create a second instance in the same session which loads a different profile from, say,
file:///C:/Users/MyUserName/AppData/Roaming/LibreOffice/up2
Both instances will then also use differently managed templates and scripts …
You may prefer to create an enhancement request at bugs.documentfoundation.org
No idea if you have a chance this way to get what you want.
Good luck!

[EarnestAl]

Time to upgrade, 6.4.7.2 was end of life 30 November 2020.

On LibreOffice 24.8.4.2 I can have both these documents open at the same time and each has its own Grid as shown in screenshot. Also each can have a different scale, although these are both 1:1

Grid_10mm2sub.odg (9.1 KB)
Grid_8mm4sub.odg (9.3 KB)