MenTaLguY wrote:
In practice, the only way to do "real world units" in SVG is to set the document dimensions in some absolute real world unit, establish a viewBox, and then use nothing but user and relative units in the document proper.
You just hit on my paradigm there. I have always written SVG in vi/notepad and that is exactly what I've been doing. Thanks for the explanation. 0.8 user units per point conincides perfectly with my notion of 90 units per inch. It makes some sense now. And it is a way more complicated than I had expected. I would still like to be able to control my path "units" but I usually have a backwards way of doing things and I'm not sure it would be useful to others. Perhaps I can use a transform to sync my way of thinking with how Inkscape/SVG works. Thanks again.
Does anyone want to take a stab at why I can't seem to control the units on the rulers once I reopen a previously saved document? Probably just an issue in Debian unstable.
Aaron Spike