Create your text by using the text tool like normal.You can set the font size to a particular mm or cm by using the XML editor. However, this leads to another solution to WooK's problem. I guess I just assumed the font size were in points because that's the usual way in computer programs. Thanks.Capnhud wrote:Not sure about other OS's but in windows no matter what my document properties are if I check the font in the XML editor the sizes are indeed in px. Please clarify what you mean by 'behavior seems normal on your end', giving precise examples. Inkscape, by the way, is also inconsistent with itself, since changing coordinates of an object from the box will respect the 'up means increase' standard, but not the increase of font size when changing text size.

But here we have Inkscape really trying to stand out and confuse people with dozens of years of muscle memory. Unrelated to Adobe, different company - same behavior. Here is another example where up means an increase in value, Apple's Pages Text Editor.

I am showing it in its expanded version, but if I simply clicked the value and used the up and down arrows to zoom in or out of my artboard, up would be Increase and DOWN would decrease. This is the Artboard size menu in InDesign (but the exact same behavior would be expected across all Adobe apps). Here the same thing happens with numbers. Imagine if you pressed UP and went from Canada to Ethiopia it would be counterintuitive and disruptive in a workflow. Imagine a drop down menu with the labels: Algeria Belgium Canada Ethiopia France If you click on the menu (without expanding it) to navigate from canada to Algeria you would have to press 'UP' twice. The logic is that we are navigating inside a suggested menu. Across every single Adobe app, UP means increase in selected number or percentage. Can you give an example of a program you use where selecting text and pressing the UP key will make the selected number decrease? I have never seen this behavior anywhere else but in inkscape.

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