On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 00:08, bulia byak wrote:
lists only cm, mm, in, pt, pc. So the question is: why do we have meters in the units drop-down lists at all? Isn't it safer to remove them?
Any insights?
I've used inkscape for doing house plans. Having meters was quite useful for that. We may end up having a global scale factor for doing map work (which is something that bryce was interested in).
Of course it's useful, but what about SVG conformance? Even if we convert meters to e.g. inches on save, how will Inkscape know that they should be translated back to meters when loaded? Looks like we need inkscape: attributes in <svg> for scale factor and preferred length units. That will require changes in a lot of places I think.
Well, if we keep meters, we certainly shouldn't be translating to inches. millimeters would make sense.
-mental