Tips and Tricks tutorial: Units

[Hachmann]

The Tips and Tricks tutorial mentions a default unit, which is now called 'display unit', and it says that the default is px.

In my local trunk copy, using the English interface (but without any changes to my system locale, I think), it shows mm there.

Does this depend on my own system settings, or was there a change that needs to be reflected in the tutorial?

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

V just posted a bug report on an unrelated topic, which confirms the mm as default units:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1589792

[su_v (suv-lp)]

<off-topic>
JFTR: Bug #1589792 refers to the length of an SVG user unit (aka 'px' in the SVG source), which corresponds to 1 mm in files based on the current default templates (trunk, 0.92pre). The 'Display unit' in Document Properties on the other hand is not the same - it only affects how lengths are represented in the GUI (e.g. which unit is used for the rulers). The Display unit does not (or should not) have an effect on the document's internal scale (i.e. the absolute length of the SVG user unit, based on the width, height and viewBox attributes of the root <svg> element).
</off-topic>

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Replaces comment #2 to fix typo in version number: s/0.91pre/0.92pre/

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

Not off topic at all, suv!

The tutorial says:
"In the default template, the unit of measure used by the rulers is px (“SVG user unit”, in Inkscape it's equal to 0.8pt or 1/90 of the inch)."

So it should just say:
"In the default template, the unit of measure used by the rulers is mm."

Right?

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Yes, I think so.

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

Thank you, su_v.

Patch attached, but I assume it will not go into 0.92.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

> Patch attached, but I assume it will not go into 0.92

Only the FR and DE tutorials are up to date. So it's not too bad to apply the patch now.
I currently have no commit access, but I'll probably push it later today.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Files updated in inkscape-docs rev. 549.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

All tutorials updated in the 0.92.x branch (rev. 15047) and trunk (rev. 15079).