- From: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 07:21:50 -0800
- To: "Dr. Olaf Hoffmann" <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- CC: "www-svg@w3.org" <www-svg@w3.org>
On Mar 3, 2012, at 5:45 AM, Dr. Olaf Hoffmann wrote: > Tanguy Ortolo: > >> Well, I guess natural units would not have a very high popularity then, >> most SVG drawings must be using pixels… With the merged transformation spec CSS3 Transforms[1], you can use units like cm, in, px, pt and a lot more for translate(). But all units are relative to user units which means the same like Olaf mentions in his post. > > Without providing a unit or an option to do so, you work in local units. > Typically these are no pixels. Apart from other transformations, > how much this is, depends mainly on the relation of width, height, viewBox > and preserveAspectRatio especially on the root svg element. > The simplest approach is anyway just to use only local units within the > svg element and define width and height of the svg with the intended > units. > Whatever you assume, what a 'natural unit' is, as already discussed before, > there are reasons, why you will typically get the absolute units like mm and > cm not correctly displayed, if you use them ... > > > Olaf > Dirk [1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-transforms/
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