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[Paulo Gabriel <168164@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Suggestion: make the font unit selectable.

No matter if it will or will not be defined form the default document
unit, the important thing is to make it modifiable.

You can even set "pt" as default and there is no problem. It's just
interesting to provide a select box on page settings that allows the
font unit change to/from "pt" and "px".

Everybody will be happy, both when designing for print or for web.

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Title:
  font sizes specified in pixels instead of points

Status in Inkscape:
  Fix Released
Status in inkscape package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I've been using Inkscape for work as my only vector editor for the past
  year or so, and while it's extremely capable, there is one coding choice
  which I find completely bewildering: Why is font size specified in pixels
  instead of points? This seems to be used in both listboxes and the actual
  raw SVG. For the longest time I could not figure out why my text always
  looked so small. I don't think pixels are a useful measurement for text, as
  points are the de facto standard.

  Using inkscape 0.44.1 autopackage.org build on Ubuntu Linux 6.06.

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