Hi all,
I am a new user of this forum and also new to inkscape. I have an issue to resolve about font sizes in inkscape which is as follows;
As far as i know, Inkscape uses SVG standard units (px) internally, even for fonts. And here arises the problem: Everybody is used to interpret font sizes as pt (the font size 10 I use for this mail is actually 10pt!). As Inkscape interprets (and stores) the font sizes in px (that is: smaller), a 100% print of fonts from Inkscape will yield smaller characters than with probably any other application around.
Any help and directions about this issue is welcome. Actually i am a java developer, i downloaded the source code and prepared the environment on eclipse. But i do not know how to approach the problem and where to start.
Thanks to you all.
There was some discussion about this earlier (you can look through the lists).
I think the thing to remember is that the default unit ought to be pixels, since it's the svg standard. Apart from that, it would be nice to specify different font size units, if it makes sense to do so.
Probably the biggest problem with units (as was previously discussed) is that there is no coherent document unit setting and ui - so you might have your document set in inches, your tools working in pts, etc, all at the same time. It would be nice to be able to specify for the whole document that everything is measured in [whatever unit] and be able to change that from a standard place.
It might also makes sense to be able to change something, e.g. the font, to use some other unit type while keeping everything else in the standard (of your choice) units. Or have the option to let each thing (meaning toolbox, document, fonts, etc) keep its own unit type setting, if someone really needs that behavior, as it works now.
Just a few thoughts for how you might approach the ui aspect.
JF
Tayfun BIYIKOGLU wrote:
Hi all,
I am a new user of this forum and also new to inkscape. I have an issue to resolve about font sizes in inkscape which is as follows;
As far as i know, Inkscape uses SVG standard units (px) internally, even for fonts. And here arises the problem: Everybody is used to interpret font sizes as pt (the font size 10 I use for this mail is actually 10pt!). As Inkscape interprets (and stores) the font sizes in px (that is: smaller), a 100% print of fonts from Inkscape will yield smaller characters than with probably any other application around.
Any help and directions about this issue is welcome. Actually i am a java developer, i downloaded the source code and prepared the environment on eclipse. But i do not know how to approach the problem and where to start.
Thanks to you all.
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