On 2015-08-22 04:19 (+0200), Brynn wrote:
When I set some text to be 18, the status bar tells me it's 22.50.
Set to 16, status bar says 20, etc. Is it a bug? Or is there a reason? Whatever the reason, the size the user chooses should be shown in the status bar, imo.
The units for the font size are configurable in Inkscape 0.91 (see prefs for text tool), the default now is 'pt' (based on popular demand by users as the 'commonly used' units for font size) instead of 'px'.
The messages in the status bar show lengths and e.g. font size in the current document's default units (see Document Properties > Page > Default units).
This is Inkscape 0.91, 32-bit, on Windows 7, 64-bit. Also occurs
in 0.91, 64-bit. Does not occur in 0.48.5.
Does occur in Inkscape 0.48 too, if the default units of the current doument differ from 'px' (the unit for font size in Inkscape 0.48).
The only changes between Inkscape 0.48 and 0.91 AFAICT had been a) the unit used for font size in the GUI is configurable, and b) the default unit for font size is now 'pt' instead of 'px'.
The default units of new documents based on the default template in Inkscape are still 'px' (as with Inkscape 0.48).
Cheers, V