Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] the Scale setting and Display units
Eduard Braun wrote
However - while I'm an advocate of SI myself - it's certainly
not the only
measure and needs are different. Just because *you* prefer the meter does
not mean other people work the same way.
I didn't want to say that mm is better than px. mm is better than px if you
are speaking of real world measures; px has proven to be a bad real world
measure. But if you draw an icon you should use px not mm, of course.
Eduard Braun wrote
You only want to offer SI units? Great! Let's
drop inches and point, too! A user wants to design a screenshot for
their full HD screen? Let's tell them to make their document 1920x1080
mm² because "1 mm will always be 1 mm" (no wait... because the px is
flawed they're probably out of luck anyway - or should they measure
their screen with a ruler... I'm confused ;-) )
No, I don't only want to offer SI units, of course. :)
Why did you think that?
Eduard Braun wrote
If an application complicates certain usage scenarios on purpose
it's
bound to upset some people and leaves a bad impression behind. I don't
want that.
Me too.
Eduard Braun wrote
Do you want to tell them "hey, Inkscape is doing everything
right, here,
look in the cryptic specification users should never have to care about
and see for yourself we're not to blame?" That won't help them at all...
Are you saying that some users make drawings in mm and expect the SVG to
internally store numbers in 1/96 inches? Personally I find this a "cryptic
specification users should never have to care about", not the opposite.
Anyway, if it's like this, the px template should fix everything. Do people
need an A4_in_px template?
Luca
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