Hi there Maarten

It depends on how you set up your document in Inkscape. Best practice I use esp when editing vector content from outside Inkscape is checking that all units are reflecting correctly in the document.
CTRL+SHIFT+D opens the document properties and I can check to see if default units are set to px/mm/cm/pt once I have done this check your window properties and make sure units are expessed in the measurements you need. I get alot of vector content from adobe users and usually they don't specifically set the units to either px or mm.

[Edit]

You can also set the stoke to transform with the scaling of the doc/or not in the preferences dialog (SHIFT+CTRL+P), I just realized that this might be what you're actually hoping to do :)

Do let me know if it works for you...

Thanks
Judah

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 6:15 PM, m .h. van der velde <m.h.vandervelde@...155...> wrote:

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your suggestion considering using a rectangle as a line, but I’m afraid that wouldn’t work in my situation: I need to make circles too and the lines are send to cutting equipment, so they really must be lines.

Hi Judah,

I’m curious about your answer, but all I see is the ‘salutation’ (Hi there Maarten).

Thanks both, kind regards,

Maarten

On 04 Jul 2015, at 18:09, Judah Kleinveldt <judahyodh@...95.....155...> wrote:

Hi there Maarten

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 11:58 AM, m .h. van der velde <m.h.vandervelde@...155...> wrote:
Hi all,

I’m playing with SVG content generated outside Inkscape that uses the ViewBox property.

I’m experiencing two problems there, can somebody maybe help me with that?

1) It seems like inscape ignores the ‘non-scaling stoke’ vector effect. My view box is 30 x 60 (no units) large, the stroke width is 1px. But is seems like Inscape interprets it as 1 view box unit - and draws the stroke way to thick.

2) The same seems to apply to text. The font size seems to be interpreted as view box units, no matter what unit I define for the font-size (pt, mm, px) Also, the interpretation of the font size seems to differ between browsers and operating systems! Sometimes rendering the font way to large and sometimes way to big.

And, related to 1) and 2), I noticed when saving a SVG from Inkscape, that Inkscape doesn’t define any unit but the SVG’s work fine and accurate. Even if I define a box to be 100mm x 100mm. Is there a ‘conversion’ between mm and ‘units’ going on somewhere. Is there a convention how units in SVG correlate to ‘real world’ dimensions such as mm or inches?

Thanks for your help!

Maarten

(Btw, I would love to mention the website that generates these SVG's, but I do not know if it’s appropiate to do so?)
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