What do I need to do to Inskscape or to this SVG to make Inskscape respect the 'mm' choice of units?



Currently inkscape V0.48.4 apparently interprets the dimensions as px, despite the containing entity <svg> specifying mm:



and changing Inkscape display to mm causes an unwanted scaling:



I have read the comments to https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/657284 and am none the wiser.

Thanks.

Hi

Try this;



Set document properties Units = mm

For example - see here; http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/shapes.html

Good Luck
RGDS
Ragnar

ragstian wrote:

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<?xml version='1.0' standalone='no'?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN'
   "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg width="1000mm" height="10mm" viewBox="0 0 1000 10"
   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">
   <polygon fill="black" stroke="blue" stroke-width="0"
            points="0.00,0.00 0.00,10.00 1000.00,10.00 1000.00,0.00" />
</svg>

Thanks. Adding viewBox works. It seems Inskscape is ignoring the <svg units indication unless there is a viewBox. Ratehr poor.

ragstian wrote:Set document properties Units = mm

Thanks, but with the workaround above, i find that is no needed.

ragstian wrote:For example - see here; http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/shapes.html

I don't see anything there (or anywhere else in the SVG spec.) to suggest this behaviour.
Good Luck
RGDS
Ragnar[/quote]