Entering pixels/inches in value fields

[Brian_J]

I'm confused about how inches and pixels are converted when the unit of measure is entered in various fields in Affinity apps. Some fields seem to convert inches to pixels or vice versa based on the DPI set in the document, while in other fields the conversion always seems to be based on 96 PPI and the document DPI doesn't matter.

For example, when editing the document margins or editing an object in the Transform Panel, both behave as I would expect — if Document Units is set to Inches and Document DPI  is 72, entering 72 px sets the value to 1 inch; if Document DPI is 300, entering 300 px sets the value to 1 inch.

However, when editing Text Styles, entering px values in any of the Paragraph Spacing fields doesn't convert the px values as I expect... 96px is converted to 1 inch no matter what I have the Document DPI set at.

Is this intended behavior, and if so, can someone help me understand why?

[walt.farrell]

33 minutes ago, Brian_J said:

However, when editing Text Styles, entering px values in any of the Paragraph Spacing fields doesn't convert the px values as I expect... 96px is converted to 1 inch no matter what I have the Document DPI set at.

I have not seen that, but I would guess that perhaps you have your application Settings set to display text in pt (points) not px. And at that point, I would expect it to be 72pt becomes 1 inch, because that's the definition of points.