8 Jan
2011
8 Jan
'11
8 p.m.
On Jan 5, 2011, at 12:18 AM, Andreas Neustifter wrote:
Hi All!
Just out of curiosity: Why is everyone insisting on using px when Inkscape is perfectly capable of using natural units like inches or millimetres?
Actually, it is not.
At the base level, SVG only allows coordinates in raw px units in paths, etc. Our UI will attempt to translate things. Some dimensions can be specified with an explicit unit type, but others can not.
There are a few things that make working with explicit units a little easier, but understanding that a base limitation keeps some things to only 'px' internally is helpful, especially when dealing with such subtle issues as print alignment, etc.