How to scale text in SVG

Question

I use Inkscape to convert an SVG to pdf latex, after the conversion I want to scale the image so it matches the second image. But the text does not scale accordingly to the boxes. I use the following code to render the first image. Does anyone know how I can scale the boxes and the text, so it matches the second image?

\usepackage{svg}


\begin{figure}[ht] 
    \centering 
    \includesvg[width=0.7\textwidth]{someimage} 
    \caption{foo} 
    \label{bar} 
\end{figure}

Answer 1

I am adding this because the accepted answer does not mention this solution, which is much cleaner.

\includesvg treats whatever text in your figure independently by default.

The cleanest way to scale your text with your figure is to set the inkscapelatex parameter to false. This document explains this as follows:

If option inkscapelatex=true is set, the output is split into a seperate PDF/EPS/PS file (see optioninkscapeformat) and a corresponding LATEX file. This is the default setting. Setting inkscapelatex=false will result in a single PDF/EPS/PS file, where any contained text won’t be rendered by LATEX.

Therefore, \includesvg[inkscapelatex=false,<other params>]{svgfile} is what you are looking for.

Answer 2

There are a few different possibilities:

• \fontsize{8}{10}\selectfont (or whatever size is appropriate) to use a smaller font size.

• use the same font size as in your document already during the design process in inkscape

• or, as Harald Hanche-Olsen pointed out in his comment include the graphic with a larger size and scale it down using \scalebox or similar tools.

Answer 3

To add to the answer of cPickle (because I'm not allowed to comment yet):

You can also set the option inkscapelatex=false globally by using \svgsetup after importing the svg package:

\usepackage{svg}
\svgsetup{inkscapelatex=false}