Comment 2 for bug 1659489

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

On 2017-01-29 03:33 (+0100), Bryce Harrington wrote on the 'inkscape-devel' mailing list:
> Since both --do-not-fix-pre-92 and --dpi-update-method relate to
> the same underlying issue, I bet they could be sensibly combined
> into a single commandline option.
https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/35632831/

I do not agree to merge these two different command line options into a single one:
* Auto-fixing baseline spacing of text in legacy files is a [yes|no] decision. The default (and recommended) action is to always apply the fix when opening a file detected as "legacy". There might/will be (rare) cases where it is necessary to allow to disable these changes when opening a legacy file.
* Whether or not a file requires to be adapted for the interal 90->96 dpi change, and which internal method then should be used, depends on the individual file's content and use case (screen, output to device where physical size in absolute "real" units matters), and is not related to the issues with baseline spacing.
None of the factors to decide about the action with regard to document scale affect the decision whether or not to auto-fix baseline spacing.

The only common factor of the two options is that they concern legacy files. Otherwise, they are not related.