Comment 5 for bug 166970

Wolfram Quester wrote:
> Hi Cyril,
>
> buliabyak, one of the upsream authors of inkscape replied to your
> request on sourceforge:
>
> "As far as I know most other SVG renderers also use fixed
> resolution for px/absolute conversions. So long as they do,
> I don't really think we need to fix this bug either. After
> all SVG is not well suited for absolute units at all, the
> spec recommends to always use px to avoid incompatibilities."
>
> With best regards,
>
> Wolfi

Hello Wolfram,

Thanks for having forwarded the reply. I don't agree
with Buliayak's arguments because, sometimes, it makes
more sense to use absolute units like 'cm' and to expect
they would be displayed at the right scale on the screen
(programs like gs, Adobe Reader, Scribus... do that).

Anyway, it's a minor bug and inkscape is a very promising
program.

BTW, looking at the beginning of the file "src/unit-constants.h"
let me think this bug could be fixed some day.

with best regards,
--
Cyril