-----Original Message----- From: Andreas Neustifter [mailto:andreas.neustifter@...155...] Sent: zondag 9 januari 2011 22:43 To: Inkscape User Community Cc: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape Accurancy
On 09.01.2011, at 20:40, Abrolag <abrolag@...16...> wrote:
On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 14:19:11 -0500 Hendrik Boom <hendrik@...2611...> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 02:15:00PM -0500, Shawn H Corey wrote:
On 11-01-09 01:57 PM, Jon Cruz wrote:
Ah, but there's the rub. There are many definitions of
"remain the size I given it".
Among others there is the question of intent. For
example, does one always intend an image to span half the width of the display when I hold it in my hand, but only 1/30th of the display when I bring it up in my living room? Very often the answer to that one is "no".
And does one want to measure a distance in strict linear
means on a
physical object, or does one want the same retinal image size? (Apple has bumped this one up in the consciousness of
the consumer,
but W3C and CSS already addressed it)
When I say I want an image that is 6 inches by 4 inches,
I mean that
and nothing else. The problems is with the monitors; they are measured in pixels. Printers, however, print to paper of
standards sizes.
When you measure distance, you measure the physical
distance. The
size of the image on the retina is irrelevant.
People with some kinds of poor eyesight routinely like
*everything*
to be twice as big. Evidently, you're not one of them.
-- hendrik
Not posted for a while but this one really got my attention!
Then let them indeed rescale everything i.e. the entire desktop *display*. I have poor eyesight and if I want to see detail
I'll zoom
in, not attempt to change the underlying structure of a document.
I agree with Shawn in inch is an inch. I would be extremely
annoyed if
my PCB designs were arbitarily re-sacled :(
I guess your 1in x 1in PCB should be only shown at the width of 1in on your screen then...
??
I guess what I'm trying to say is that the whole discussion about absolute measurements can only be made if it also involves an output device.
Not so. If I make a drawing of a square of 1x1 cm, I want the SVG document to say it is 1x1 cm. Doesn't matter how it is displayed on screen. Then I can mail the document to someone else, he opens it, and sees: ah, the square is 1x1 cm. Think about technical drawing, CAD stuff.
-Johan