Scale SVG Proportionatly to PNG - command

I need to scale some svg's proportionately and output to a PNG max size 32px (either dimension).
Right now I'm using Inkscape but the proportions get warped depending on the image.
"C:\Program Files\Inkscape\inkscape.exe" "yo.svg" --export-png="yo.png" --export-area-drawing -w32 -h32

I don't really know Windows batch scripts, but the command
inkscape yo.svg --query-width
inkskape yo.svg --query-height
will give you the width and height of your drawing. Can you use an if statement to see which one is bigger and scale only the appropriate dimension?
So if the width was greater than the height, doing:
inkscape yo.svg --export-png="yo.png" --export-area-drawing -w32
would achieve what you want.

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Matlab figure size formatting for Word

I'm trying to create MATLAB figures to put into a paper. The paper has very specific sizing instructions for figures that I'm having trouble matching in MATLAB. The figures need to be no greater than 3.5" width, >300 DPI, with 8pt font.
In my code, I use the following to try to set the parameters:
set(gcf,'PaperUnits','inches');
set(gcf,'PaperPosition',[0 0 3.5 3.5]);
xlabel('x-axis label','FontSize',8);ylabel('y-axis label','FontSize',8);
set(gca,'FontSize',8);
print('-djpeg','-r300','filename.jpg')
This should be giving me a 300 DPI, 3.5"x3.5" JPEG image with an 8pt font size. However, when I import the image into Word, it becomes 6.5" x 6.5" and the font size is larger than Word's 8pt font. Even if I resize the image, the font size is still too large, though it should maintain the same DPI. Are the FontSize and PaperPosition parameters not working as I expect they should or is Word doing something strange for importing?
The font size issue was caused due to differing fonts used in MATLAB and Word. Once I learned about set(gca,'FontName'), the font size seemed to be correct when the image was manually resized to 3.5" x 3.5".
The image size issue seemed to be related to saving it as a JPEG. Once I swapped to PNG, the image was the correct size by default. Looking into the JPEG properties, it had the correct number of pixels for a DPI of 300 at 3.5", the sole issue was that it would have to be manually resized. Thanks for the comments that led me to finding a solution.

Resizing command changes image shape

I have to resize image i.e if its dimension is 3456x5184 to 700X700 as my code needs image with less number of pixels otherwise it takes too much time to give results.So, when I use imresize command it changes the dimensions of image but at the same time it changes the shape of image i.e the circle in image which I also need to detect looks like oval instead of being cirle. I need your suggestions to resolve this problem. I am really grateful to you people.
Resizing images is done by either subsampling (to get smaller images) or some kind of interpolation (to get larger images)
Input is either a factor or a final dimension for width and height.
The only way to fit a rectangle into a square by simply resizing it is to use different scales for width and height. Which of course will yield in a distorted image.
To achieve what you want you can either crop a 700x700 region from your image or resize image using the same factor for with and height. Then you can fit the larger dimension into 700 and fill the rest around the other dimension with black or whatever you prefer.

Advanced image scaling in JasperReports

I need to include many images of unknown origin in a report. I have no idea what the images might be: portrait or landscape fotos, large or small, or even something with an atypical shape, like a 400x80 logo.
I'd like to scale down images with the following rule: proportionally downscale until the larger side is 200. And resulting image shouldn't take more space than needed (i.e. 1000x600 should be downscaled to 200x120, not to 200x200), so that there are no unneeded blank margins around non-square images.
Is what I need possible with JasperReports?
EDIT:
To clarify: "real size" mode is almost what I need. However, I don't see a way to limit height of resulting image. As a result, if the image I want to print is a portrait foto (or has even larger height compared to width), generated PDF looks ugly; in this case I would prefer to somehow downscale it to a smaller width.
I solved the Problem of resizing images of various sizes to a fixed size with "RetainShape" by writing an ImageResizer, based on the idea of the ImageTransformer from https://stackoverflow.com/a/39320863/8957103 , using https://github.com/rkalla/imgscalr for scaling the image.

Matlab: Scale figures for publishing - exact dimensions and font sizes

I am currently writing up a scientific thesis and am very desparate about creating figures that have the exact dimensions I want them to have. Especially the font sizes do not match.
I already googled alot and there are a bunch of guides and scripts about this topic but nothing really helped - I have not yet figured out (sorry) why my approach does not work:
FS=8; %font size in points (the same as in my document)
width=12; %width of figure in cm
height=4; %height of figure in cm
scatter(1:20,rand(20,1));
xlabel('X','fontsize',FS),ylabel('Y','fontsize',FS),title('X vs. Y','fontsize',FS)
%now I scale the figure and place it in the bottom left corner. The white margins around it are cropped automatically
set(gca,'units','centimeters','outerposition',[0 0 width height])
%export as .eps
print(gcf,'-depsc','test')
When I load test.eps into Inkscape, the figure is 10.16 x 3.529 cm large and the font sizes (of title and axis labels) are 10.
How do I get a figure with the exact scaling, especially regarding the font size?
I did the following:
FS=8; %font size in points (the same as in my document)
width=12; %width of figure in cm
height=4; %height of figure in cm
scatter(1:20,rand(20,1));
set(gca, 'fontsize', FS);
xlabel('X','fontsize',FS),ylabel('Y','fontsize',FS),title('X vs. Y','fontsize',FS)
set(gcf,'units','centimeters','position',[0 0 width height])
export_fig(gcf, 'test.pdf', '-transparent', '-nocrop')
The output figure is 12cm x 4cm. The font size still claims to be 10 in Inkscape, however, but it looks the same size as that in the figure. Export_fig can be downloaded from the MATLAB file exchange.
Here is how I solve it as of now - it is not exactly elegant but it works...
I plot my figure and arrange and scale it in the figure window the way I want it to be scaled:
set(gcf,'units','centimeters','position',[0 0 width height])
Due to the white margins around the axes, I increase the width/height by approximate (trial and error...) values that the margins use up. I then export it:
export_fig(gcf,'test','-eps','-transparent')
And load it into Inkscape. Now I set the document properties so that the document has the exact size I want my figure to have - the figure is partly out of this frame because I increased the width/height earlier.
Then I arrange the axes to have as much white space between them as I want them to have; hopefully, everything is inside the document borders after that.
Probably the drawing is smaller than the document borders now - to ensure that it will not get expanded, messing up the scaling, when I put it in my actual document (my thesis, not the Inkscape document...), I simply create a white background that matches the document borders. Aaand done.
Except for the fontsize and fontname properties in Matlab - I have not figured out why they are not properly exported...but this is not hard to manually fix in Inkscape.
Thanks for your help, everyone.

Scaling while conserving ration

Upon using the convert method, I would like to be able to transform a landscape or portrait image given the height and width specify without altering the ratio.
From the documentation, the 'clip' options act as follow:
'clip': Resizes the image to fit within the specified parameters without distorting, cropping, or changing the aspect ratio
If I have a 200x50 image and I want a 150x150 result, this would result in a 150x37px resized image with its ratio identical to the original's.
If I have a 100x50 image and I want a 150x150 result, this would result in a 150x75px resized image with its ratio identical to the original's.
'crop': Resizes the image to fit the specified parameters exactly by removing any parts of the image that don't fit within the
boundaries
If I have a 200x50 image and I want a 150x150 result, this would result in a 150x37px cropped image.
'scale': Resizes the image to fit the specified parameters exactly by scaling the image to the desired size
If I have a 200x50 image and I want a 150x150 result, this would result in a 150x150px resized image where the ratio has been altered to fit.
'max': Resizes the image to fit within the parameters, but as opposed to 'clip' will not scale the image if the image is smaller
than the output size
Same output as in 'clip' except that if I have a 100x50 image and I want a 150x150 result, this would result in a 100x50px resized image with its ratio identical to the original's.
What I would like to have is the ability to make an image conserve its ratio and be of the required dimension (with vertical and horizontal centering if need be). It would result in an image that is not distorted nor clipped.
I understand there are some trickiness to the task as you have to determine what color do you fill the space with (see ImageMagick doc about space filling).
Any insight would be great, hope it is not too much of an edge case.
Take a look at this set of examples in the ImageMagick documentation:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/thumbnails/#square
We don't currently offer the ability to "fill" empty parts of the image with a background color, so do not support this use case. We are looking at adding it in the near term, and will update you when this is added.