On 08-08-16 07:08, Philip Rhoades wrote:
When I create a new image, I get a page that, in Landscape mode, is 800 units wide and 600 units high. I know that the origin for the SVG y-axis is at the top-left of the screen and the positive direction is down and the reverse is the case for the Inkscape y-axis and I am not concerned for this exercise about printed output. I just want the absolute units on the screen to correspond to the absolute units in the SVG file that Inkscape produces - is this possible? (I couldn't find anything in the program or Googling . .)
To obtain the same units, go to document-properties and choose for units: px.
There is one catch: when resizing the page size, it translates the current layers such that the origin stays on the same place (but this messes up the exact unit numbers). The easiest solution is to start with an empty document, resize the page size, save it and open it with a text editor. Look for:
<g inkscape:label="Layer 1" inkscape:groupmode="layer" id="layer1" transform="translate(0,-252.36216)" />
And remove ```transform="translate(0,-252.36216)" ```.
Kind regards