Hi. My wife needs to see 1:1 ratio of her work. This is, if the page is set in A4 and she selects 1:1 and then grabs a A4 page, the with of the page should match the page border width.
We tried calibrating by toying with Page > Scale but this changes the size of the content, not the page. Is there a way to achieve this?
In Preferences/Interface there is an item "Zoom correction factor" and a ruler below it. The ruler show the real scale and 100% means 1:1. Compare the dimensions on video using a real ruler.
When you're working on canvas, press "1" to have the workspace set on 1:1 basis.
Even with my correction in preferences set to 133% a 1920px wide object displays precisely my screen width. If I want to see a 100mm wide object display at 100mm IRL, I need to zoom my workspace to 133%.
Yeah, that's basically what the calibration does, set the 1:1 aspect to the zoom you need to have real life sizes and when you hit the "1" key the zoom goes to whatever you need, 133% in your case.
To make it work with 1.0 you MUST have the same unit in both the ruler calibration slider and the document unit. This will be fixed in the future so its unit-independent.
In fusion360 I take a photo with a coin next to what I want to measure, then I calibrate the photo to the coin which makes everything in the photo pretty close to a 1 to 1 digital photo of the acual object, so I can then use the photo to meeasure object I hope this made sence as I would love to be able to do the same thing in inkscape images and tshirt so I could sketch pictures and images to scal.e ie:tshirt design could be. sketched straight onto calkbrated photo?. any ideas?
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Hi. My wife needs to see 1:1 ratio of her work. This is, if the page is set in A4 and she selects 1:1 and then grabs a A4 page, the with of the page should match the page border width.
We tried calibrating by toying with Page > Scale but this changes the size of the content, not the page. Is there a way to achieve this?
Thanks!
In Preferences/Interface there is an item "Zoom correction factor" and a ruler below it. The ruler show the real scale and 100% means 1:1. Compare the dimensions on video using a real ruler.
When you're working on canvas, press "1" to have the workspace set on 1:1 basis.
Thank you Marcos! Worked wonderfully!
And this is not working in 1.0. What a bummer! Reported the issue, let's see how it goes.
Oh, I see. What a pity.
IIRC, 1:1 has always meant pixels:pixels.
Even with my correction in preferences set to 133% a 1920px wide object displays precisely my screen width.Â
If I want to see a 100mm wide object display at 100mm IRL, I need to zoom my workspace to 133%.
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Yeah, that's basically what the calibration does, set the 1:1 aspect to the zoom you need to have real life sizes and when you hit the "1" key the zoom goes to whatever you need, 133% in your case.
To make it work with 1.0 you MUST have the same unit in both the ruler calibration slider and the document unit. This will be fixed in the future so its unit-independent.
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Got it, thanks!
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It would be nice if InkScape detected the PPI of the monitor it's displayed on and adjusted this for you.
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In fusion360 I take a photo with a coin next to what I want to measure, then I calibrate the photo to the coin which makes everything in the photo pretty close to a 1 to 1 digital photo of the acual object, so I can then use the photo to meeasure object I hope this made sence as I would love to be able to do the same thing in inkscape images and tshirt so I could sketch pictures and images to scal.e ie:tshirt design could be. sketched straight onto calkbrated photo?. any ideas?
@noHands, Inkscape documents can be set to the units you prefer and designs can be made at 1:1.
If an image is imported into Inkscape, it can be calibrated to 1:1 (real-life) by-hand or with this extension:
https://inkscape.org/~Moini/%E2%98%85realscale-resize-by-line-of-known-length