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		minority-one on Oct 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Autodesk Graphic That's because vectors are unitless. I've had to constantly explain this to graphic designers I've worked with...

Animats on Oct 15, 2015 [–]

SVG can represent vectors with units of "in", "mm", or "px". Inkscape only does "px", which means it's for drawing pretty pictures. There's no fundamental reason it couldn't support real units, but it doesn't.

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