Comment 6 for bug 166970

Hi Cyril,

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:25:44PM +0200, Cyril Humbert wrote:
> 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

It would be best if you would argue with bulia directly using the
webadress were I forwarded your report to.

Thanks,

Wolfi