Re: [Inkscape-user] printing from inkscape not the expected size
Jon Cruz wrote:
To go along with that we would need to get CSS media selectors and many other fun things
we *really* want to have. However, we could not call that SVG 1.x
Additionally, SVG allows for the user agent (that's us) to decide on what DPI to use.
Specify an inch and you might get 72 dots or you might get 96, but you as a designer
should not care.
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Dots != pixels. I almost mentioned that. But pixels are the CSS entity, not dots.
Dots, as you quite rightly say would represent the physical attributes of the display
device.
Additionally, what is legible text to one person is often *not* legible to another, even
when the monitor DPI remains the same.
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Not relevant when you say that something is 1" high and it better
be 1" high when measured at 96 pixels (not 96 dots -- but dots aren't
referenced in the spec).
> Get a 144dpi display and watch large portions of the web be suddenly be 2/3rd's
their intended size and much more difficult to read.
Well... that depends. If one defines a font in point sizes, then as the density of the
display increased the number of pixels used in letters would correspondingly increase.
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True. I fight for people (including in 'firefox/Tbird'
that still sets default font sizes in old hardware based pixels
(they are moving to CSS3, just haven't fully gotten there yet). When they
get in canvas support it'll have to be there.
Freaky. However, until SVG 2.0 we might be a bit stuck on things.
But... remember that we are dealing with the SVG world here, and not the HTML world. The
pragmatic solution is to involve view boxes and such to pin things down to specific user
needs. HTML is not often sent out to a laser cutter for creating home furniture, but SVG
is :-)
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Hopefully they aren't measuring furniture in pixels. That's
the hair-splitting we are engaged in. We are pretty much on the same page,
I'm just talking about the use of the word / unit, 'pixel', as it refers
to a screen technology where HTML and CSS will be dominant. But dpi, lpi, you are getting
into real world measurements not made up units. I didn't like the idea of them
redefining the word 'pixels', but it's a done deal years ago. It's bigger
than me and I got more important things to worry
about. I just try to relay my information from disparate sources to
the appropriate people. I'm spread far too thin to follow through on most
things.
What I was jazzed about in the HTML5 spec were the examples that showed <img
src=xxx.svg> as a standard image format. Looked so much
simpler than all the embedded stuff needed now... :-)
-linda