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V5.3.28

While placing our SVG logo I noticed that there are no convenient ways to enter image size.

And even less convenient, is that PD seems to resize/re-scale the image when it's imported... so, it is always necessary to re-scale when placing a new image.

Currently, one can only enter the origin.

Re-scaling must be done with a mouse (cannot enter distance/coordinates anywhere). This is complicated by the fact that the aspect ratio has been changed by PD during import, and the X:Y aspect cannot be locked.

Hey Chris,

The aspect ratio not coming in not correctly and is a bug if it is happening.

Good point it would be good to have a tool were you can change the scale exactly. I'll add this for a future feature.

Thanks,
Matt

Opening the file with Inkscape on the left. PD on the right.

No changes made in either program on opening/importing.

The PD SVG import looks to be 'square'.

ah. Looks like it normalizes to 1:1 ... for some reason but that is wrong. Will get a bug fix in to keep the proper aspect ratio.

Matt

Okay, its been two years. This bug is still there, as are all of the complaints over SVG handling mentioned above.

If I actually care about correctly sized/scaled SVGs, it seems like the only way involves knowing the aspect ratio of the visible content, and manually editing the right part of the .pda file in a text editor to adjust the scaling of the graphic element.

I would not expect any normal user to be able to figure out how to do this, and it feels like practically a miracle that I'm even able to do so. (and only possible because the tool uses plaintext data files)