Hello vadoola!
Salut Laurent !
vadoola wrote:That calculation is based on trying to map the real world dimensions to pixels based on an A4 Sheet of paper using the standard QET Template.
As I already wrote several times in this forum:
QET is primarily a software to draw schematic diagrams.
QET is no substitute for CAD software like LibreCAD, AutoCAD or so.
The only dimension QET "knows" is px!
These number of px can be set by every user individually for height/width of a folio.
A folio itself has no direct connection to a papersize – it can be printed to any papersize, users have a printer for.
So in my opinion we should NOT use a specific size of paper for the scaling of elements!
As I suggested several times we should use a front-view-scaling where the user can see the real size at first sight or where he/she can calculate the real size by using a simple integer factor:
1 mm <-> 2 px
1 px is also the smallest step size, a QET-Element can be moved in diagram-editor. So then we could "move" the elements by 1 px = 1/2 millimeter in real-life.
We already have a wild mixture of scaling-factors with front-views: Please don't add another!
About the texts / fonts
That wasn't meant as a negative criticism: just a remark that this is the case.
It is clear to me in particular that there is still a lot of work to be done to integrate the texts correctly into the element. You will have "a lot of fun” with the text position, because it is not directly on the baseline of the first letter, but on a bounding box that is specified by qt, but not well described...
A difference to many other software: QET can only handle font-sizes which are integer numbers!