* Document units: now you can set the default units for each document in the Document Preferences dialog. These units apply to the rulers and the statusbar coordinates (previously unchangeable) and are preselected in all unit menus (such as in the Selector controls bar). The units are saved with the document, so you can make yourself a default template with your preferred units.
* The px (pixels) unit is added to most unit menus. This is what is called "user unit" in the SVG specification, and in SVG code it is written either with the px suffix or (more often) without any suffix. Inkscape converts most dimensions to user units when writing them to SVG, and now you can use this unit via the GUI as well. Note however that the conversion ration from px to absolute length units may vary in different SVG renderers and different output media (e.g. Inkscape uses px/pt = 0.8 for screen editing), so you should not use px and absolute units in the same document. If you want one px to correspond to one bitmap pixel on export, use the export resolution of 90 dpi.
* In Selector, the statusbar now reports not only the number of selected objects but also the number of layers in which they are selected and, if there's only one, the name of the selection layer.
I'm resending this since it looks like no one noticed it.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:12:25 -0400 Subject: NEW: units, misc To: inkscape inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
* Document units: now you can set the default units for each document in the Document Preferences dialog. These units apply to the rulers and the statusbar coordinates (previously unchangeable) and are preselected in all unit menus (such as in the Selector controls bar). The units are saved with the document, so you can make yourself a default template with your preferred units.
* The px (pixels) unit is added to most unit menus. This is what is called "user unit" in the SVG specification, and in SVG code it is written either with the px suffix or (more often) without any suffix. Inkscape converts most dimensions to user units when writing them to SVG, and now you can use this unit via the GUI as well. Note however that the conversion ration from px to absolute length units may vary in different SVG renderers and different output media (e.g. Inkscape uses px/pt = 0.8 for screen editing), so you should not use px and absolute units in the same document. If you want one px to correspond to one bitmap pixel on export, use the export resolution of 90 dpi.
* In Selector, the statusbar now reports not only the number of selected objects but also the number of layers in which they are selected and, if there's only one, the name of the selection layer.
absolute units in the same document. If you want one px to correspond to one bitmap pixel on export, use the export resolution of 90 dpi.
Currently my docs are set to PT units... when I export 1280x960, it looks right (to me at least). If I convert my docs to PX units and export at 90dpi, will I get better quality results when I export at that same resolution? Or will the results be identical?
-Josh
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:44:34 -0700, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
If you don't resize your objects, just change document units, and export at the same resolution, the result will be the same. One pt gives one output pixel at 72dpi; one px gives one output pixel at 90dpi. You can use any export resolution regardless of what units you use.
One additional convenience of the pt unit compared to px is that when your zoom is 100%, one screen pixel corresponds to one pt (not px). However this is probably wrong; I'm thinking about changing that, so that 100% will be one-to-one for px, not pt. This change, if done, will change the on-load zoom level of all old Inkscape files by the factor of 1.25.
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