Hey Druban, Thanks for the explanation. Could have saved me a lot of time (:)) but it's also nice to see that my calculations were correct. As to the journal's request - they asked for the figures in PDF. They didn't specify if they wanted it rasterize or not, but they didn't complain when they got ...

It seems like I found a cumbersome yet working solution: I made a file with 4 sentences, each in a different font size. I asked my friend to tell me what font sizes he reads with Illustrator, in pt. Than I fitted a linear curve for the 4 points. This is a "calibration curve" which can be u...

He used Illustrator.

Hey flamingolady, thanks for the very (!) quick reply. To answer your questions: I can't use different fonts. I must follow the journal's protocol - Times New Roman it is. I haven't reached the stage of printing - I am not getting my desired font size in PDF I am making. As to the 600 DPI - again, j...

Hello everybody, I am an Inkscape newbie and don't know much about computerized graphics in general, so be gentle :). My problem is as follows. I am using Inkscape for scientific illustrations. The journal that I am writing to requires that the fonts will be 9-10 pts, and that the resolution will be...