I am doing web layouts and use pixel heights to define my line-spacing (line-height) for text. Right now in Inkscape 0.48, I see that there is only a way to define this as percentages.

Is there a method/hack to define this as pixels instead?

foomarks wrote:I am doing web layouts and use pixel heights to define my line-spacing (line-height) for text. Right now in Inkscape 0.48, I see that there is only a way to define this as percentages.

Font sizes in Inkscape are defined in pixel values [1], for example:

default font size 40, with default line spacing 125%:
resulting line spacing = 40 px * 1.25 = 50 px

foomarks wrote:Is there a method/hack to define this as pixels instead?

AFAIK there is no hack to use absolute values (the unit is px anyway).

A possibility might be to externally edit the SVG file (using a plain-text editor) and remove the attribute 'sodipodi:linespacing' of the parent <text> object and manually adjust the y values for each <tspan>.

• Note I: untested if this is kept if the text object is edited in Inkscape later on: initially at least Inkscape renders it correctly with the modified y-positions).
• Note II: the y coordinates refer to the SVG origin in the upper left corner, not to Inkscape's origin as used for the GUI (rulers, controls bar).
  

[1] many users demand to be able to define font sizes in points (pt), but this has not been implemented (yet)

Ah ok, thanks!