Re: SVG in SVG.

Hi Peter,

This mailing list is for discussing future changes to the SVG standards. It
isn't a help forum.

That said. A quick answer: your inner <svg> still has width & height
attributes, which define how much space the drawing will scale to,
regardless of how big or small the outer <svg>. Nesting the <svg> elements
does not add anything in your case: what you need is simply to change the
existing width and height attributes.

For help in future, StackOverflow is a good place to get eyes on tricky
questions. But there is also lots of learning material on the web to help
get a grasp on some of the less intuitive SVG attributes. On viewBox +
preserveAspectRatio, you can start with:
https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/svg-coordinate-systems/
https://css-tricks.com/scale-svg/

Best of luck,
~Amelia Bellamy-Royds

On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 at 19:42, <peter@easthope.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aiga_bus_trans.svg
> is SVG defining an icon for a bus.
>
> According to
> https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/coords.html#PreserveAspectRatioAttribute
> PreserveAspectRatio can be used to scale an image into a larger or smaller
> viewport.  Several examples are presented there.
>
> I've added a PreserveAspectRatio attribute to
> the bus icon SVG element and wrapped it in an SVG element
> specifying the common paper size, 8.5in x 11in.
> The result visible at http://easthope.ca/AIGAbusIconScaled.svg .
>
> Firefox produces the same image for the original SVG and the
> wrapped SVG.  An error in my use of SVG is more likely than a
> bug in Firefox.  Ideas?
>
> Thanks,                                ... Peter E.
>
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