[Inkscape-devel] Serious problems resulting from the units improvement GSoC merge

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1234216 - large perfomance regression https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1235279 - loss of precision

These problems should be addressed soon, or the unit-related work might need to be reverted before release.

The concept of using a viewBox that makes user units equivalent to inches or other large units is severely broken, because currently we use only 6 digits of precision for all coordinates. That was sufficient for pixels, but is definitely not sufficient for a lossless conversion between pixels and inches.

Regards, Krzysztof