Thanks, Maren. I will try to find some time to read those. But I was really hoping for a shorter answer.

It's not that I mind learning new things. But if it takes that much reading to understand a program's feature, then I think the feature needs to be redesigned, so that users are eased into it.

(Original message posted to User list, but now copying to the devel list)

If this would help for developers or advanced users know how to answer, here is the basic question.

How to change the display units, so that the file is using those units, and so that the drawing is as close to the real life units as the user's screen resolution permits (like for printing or cutting).

Also, an issue was raised in a forum, that symbols and some extensions don't work properly if the scale is not set a certain way. ("don't work properly" means that the resulting sizes aren't correct.)

In this case, I mean for a new drawing in the current version of Inkscape (not opening a file which was started in an earlier version).

Thanks again, brynn

-----Original Message----- From: Maren Hachmann Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 3:49 PM To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] the Scale setting and Display units

Suggested reading:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/units-part-i-13563546

https://www.patreon.com/posts/units-part-ii-13566508

https://www.patreon.com/posts/units-part-iii-13741251

https://www.patreon.com/posts/units-part-iv-13993147

(Articles written by Marc Jeanmougin, for his patrons on Patreon and for the whole Inkscape community)

Maren

Am 14.09.2017 um 23:11 schrieb brynn:

Hi Friends, Sending up a signal flare from the not-so-technially-inclined user community. Please either explain the Scale setting and how users can easily change the Display units; or fix the UX so we can use it.

Thank you so very much, brynn

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