On Monday 06 June 2005 02:06, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
On Jun 5, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Erik wrote:
Ie Inkscape appears to be printing out at 4/5 of the correct size. This seems so basic that I feel I must be doing something wrong or have a setting wrong. Any suggestions or comments?
Inkscape is an SVG app, and does things "SVG-style".
One of the interesting things is that SVG follows CSS size rules in that things are based on display units that may change. By default things are set to use an assumed 90 DPI value. The difference between 72 DPI and 90 DPI gives you the 4/5ths factor you're seeing.
In general, try multiplying or dividing by either 80 or 1.25.
This is a bit of a tricky area, as I believe that once we change things to follow the specs even closer, it would entail getting the DPI from the runtime display environment (though if not done properly, things would quickly devolve into chaos)
Which may or may not be correct depending on what the X server is thinking at the time. If this is not correct, then you need a ruler to set up a scaling % like in Scribus so it can be display setting independent.
Craig