[Scribus] Time to defend your use of libPDF

Craig Bradney cbradney
Thu Jan 26 00:24:07 CET 2006


On Wednesday 25 January 2006 21:45, Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> Dnia ?roda, 25 stycznia 2006 20:08, Tino Schwarze napisa?:
> > > Clearly there is an issue with 20.998 and 20.988 - one of them is
> > > wrong... but who's?  Also, what about the 14.798 -- 2 x 14.798 =
> > > 29.596...
> > >
> > > So who's got the A4/A5 dimensions wrong?
> >
> > Actually, both.
> >
> > A4 is 297 x 210 mm, no dot-something.
>
> I am not sure if this has something in common but for me Scribus always
> was screwing mm dimensions...

Maybe 1.2.x. 1.3.x should not be. I set the pages up with the ISO definition, 
and I centralised all the units conversion into one place. You will always 
get rounding errors at some point given the factors are not nice ratios, but 
you shouldnt really be with page sizes thats for sure.

Craig
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