On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Dave Cole wrote:
Sorry if this has been reported before, but since sourceforge do not allow the public to search their mail archives, or google to index their archive I have no way to check...
You can go to gmane.org to search the archive of a newsfeed I set up there early on in the project that should have all inkscape-devel@ and inkscape-user@ mails since the start.
Should there be some way to get Inkscape to "normalise" object coordinates so that they match the size of the document? After all, the is what is being displayed.
I don't know if it is documented, but there are ways to convert the coordinates into sanity. Yes you're right that the way they work is a little screwy; it's something we inherited - several developers have worked to sort it out but it is pretty thoroughly interlaced through the code. Hopefully one of them can give a clearer answer.
Bryce