What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Create a drawing that is not square 2. Export to SVG

What is the expected output? An SVG with dimensions matching the drawing. So, if I load the SVG into inkscape, and tell it to fit the page to the content, then I get a page that fits what was in the original drawing.

What do you see instead? An SVG that seems to use the width of the drawing as the height. So when I do the above procedure in InkScape, the page ends up with a bunch of white space at the bottom (because my drawing is wider that it is tall). This seems to manifest in two places in the SVG file.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Version 2.0.3 on Windows XP

Please provide any additional information below. My source .ep file has [...]<Property name="width">1624</Property><Property name="height">1304</Property>[...]

The exported .svg has <svg [...] width="1624" height="1624" [...] <g inkscape:label="Untitled Page" inkscape:groupmode="layer" id="layer_untitled_page"> <g id="g4"> <rect x="0" y="0" width="1624" height="1624" id="rect6" style="fill:none" />

The "rect6" object in particular is what's causing the problem for Inkscape. If I edit the height of rect6 to 1304 (the height from .ep), Inkscape behaves as I expected.

Correction: It appears the "rect6" object is something created by Inkscape, using the dimensions set on the object. So now it appears the height is causing the problem. If I edit the height attribute before opening in Inkspace, then everything works as expected.

More corrections (eventually I'll get it right :). In the original exported SVG, the problem is a object:

So, please ignore the XML I pasted earlier. In addition, I see know that the original has a different width and height, which doesn't seem to be related to canvas size:

The size of the created SVG document appears to be coming directly from usr/share/pencil/content/pencil/exporter/Pencil2SVG.xslt, where it is hard coded as:

So, either there is no code which is modifying these defaults to the correct dimensions for the document, or it is not working correctly.

This is a duplicate of issue #456.

I attached a patch with a solution to issue #456.