On 08-08-16 07:08, Philip Rhoades wrote:
When I create a new image, I get a page that, in Landscape mode, is
800
units wide and 600 units high. I know that the origin for the SVG
y-axis is at the top-left of the screen and the positive direction is
down and the reverse is the case for the Inkscape y-axis and I am not
concerned for this exercise about printed output. I just want the
absolute units on the screen to correspond to the absolute units in the
SVG file that Inkscape produces - is this possible? (I couldn't find
anything in the program or Googling . .)
To obtain the same units, go to document-properties and choose for
units: px.
There is one catch: when resizing the page size, it translates the
current layers such that the origin stays on the same place (but this
messes up the exact unit numbers). The easiest solution is to start with
an empty document, resize the page size, save it and open it with a text
editor. Look for:
<g
inkscape:label="Layer 1"
inkscape:groupmode="layer"
id="layer1"
transform="translate(0,-252.36216)" />
And remove ```transform="translate(0,-252.36216)" ```.
Kind regards