Hello from Spain (sorry about my english),

I was making a work for print in Inkscape, so for last step I wanted to translate my graphics to Scribus for a good colour management. I know that Scribus cannot import text from a SVG file, so I repeated the text boxes in Scribus. And such a surprise!!! Using the same family font, font size and interline size the results were very different.
To find which program had the problem, I made the same graphic in Scribus 1.3.7, Scribus 1.3.3.1.4 and Inkscape 0.47, and then export to PDF. As you can see in the following files is Inkscape the one who doesn't keep the right size.

ftp://ftp.gratisweb.com/fontsize/inkscape047.pdf
ftp://ftp.gratisweb.com/fontsize/scribus13314.pdf
ftp://ftp.gratisweb.com/fontsize/scribus137.pdf

I don't really know if this is a bug or I'm making something wrong. Please could you check the files and tell me something? Maybe I have to report the problem to the developer team

Thanks everybody

Inkscape (SVG) uses 90dpi, while elsewhere you'll probably find 72 so you need to use a larger font size in Inkscape to get the expected one in other software, multiply it by 1.25 and use that number in Inkscape.

josemafdc wrote:Using the same family font, font size and interline size the results were very different.

Keep in mind that Inkscape uses 'px' as font size units, whereas other DTP software usually specifies font sizes in 'pt'.

Related: Bug #168164 “font sizes specified in pixels instead of points”

~suv wrote:

josemafdc wrote:Using the same family font, font size and interline size the results were very different.

Keep in mind that Inkscape uses 'px' as font size units, whereas other DTP software usually specifies font sizes in 'pt'.

Related: Bug #168164 “font sizes specified in pixels instead of points”

I would understand this if every objects in the drawing had the same reduction problem. But the squares in the background of the files I uploaded are specified in points and they have no problem with the units translation. I really don't understand.

Such a terrible and very simple problem for a great software. Not good enough for printing (typography is the very best issue in graphic design).

Thanks for your answers

Not good enough for printing

You might be interested to read this topic: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5522
It gives a sort of workaround.

I have some similar problem but between the version 0.48.5 and 0.91. I create a new file in version 0.91 and I only place a text with fontsize 48. Then I close the file and open it in version 0.48.5 where the fontsize is 12 now. But the size looks about the same and the printout show the same result. I used Arial on a Windows 7 64bit system.

Could anybody explain to me where the difference comes from please? I appreciate any help.