Comment 13 for bug 1660967

Hi,
    since the scope of this question is larger than the current bug report, it might be interesting to post it on the developer or user mailing list:
http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/
    I have more or less made a solemn vow never to get involved in scaling discussions ever again, since the last time I spoke on the issue I got a bit too involved with my own rhetoric and lived to regret it. So I have no comment other than to state the obvious, which is that there is a certain amount of mathematical redundancy in the Inkscape representation of scaling information, so one is more or less free to choose whichever method is most intuitive or most intellectually appealing. My own method is to choose a specific template file from the Inkscape\share\templates\ directory and then use that template file for all future work. This could also include, potentially, customizing your template file with your own scale factor as well.