6 Jun
2005
6 Jun
'05
1:36 a.m.
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 21:11, bulia byak wrote:
You don't need to know anything about DPIs. Just use one unit for everything. The default unit in Inkscape is px; you can change that to use pt instead. The only problem is that the font size selector does not currently allow you to choose units, but we'll fix that eventually.
Given that he's doing map stuff, I imagine he's using SVG paths.
Unfortunately it's impossible to specify SVG paths in anything but px, so you really have to stick with px.
The px/pt ratio is not going to be constant with DPI, so if things are specified in pt they won't line up with the paths properly if rendered with a different DPI.
-mental