Tavmjong Bah wrote
If you specify a font size of 12pt inside the SVG file, it results in a "real world" font size of 16 inches (12pt = 16px but 1px, i.e. user unit is one inch in real world terms).
My understanding is that 'pt' is an absolute unit i.e. 1/72 inch. So, IMHO it's wrong to consider the 4/3 ratio between px and pt to manage the pt unit and consider 'pt' as relative to the 'user unit'. The same reasoning could be done in a document where 1 'user unit' is 1 'mm' and one specifies a 1 inch measurement: 1 inch = 96 px = 96 mm !?! Inkscape is not behaving in this way now, and it should do the same with 'pt'.
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