Bug#316309: librsvg2-bin: rsvg program doesn't work well with missing -w or -h argument

[Jason Dorje Short]

Package: librsvg2-bin
Version: 2.9.5-3
Severity: normal


If you give the rsvg program a -w but not a -h parameter, it will take the
width from -w but use the height from the SVG file's default, and stretch the
image to match it.  The end result is almost never what the user wants.  Of
course this also happens if you give a -h but not a -w parameter.

In the rsvg library API, you can specify width and height or *max width* and
*max height*.  In most cases the latter is preferred but in some cases it
will be the former.  I'd suggest the command line rsvg should give the
same options.

Inkscape, sodipodi, and svg2png also provide similar command-line parameters.
In adding new parameters I'd suggest they be kept compatible with these
other programs as much as possible.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages librsvg2-bin depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.17-1        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.10.1-2        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbz2-1.0               1.0.2-7         high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-22    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcroco3                0.6.0-2         a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C
ii  libfontconfig1           2.3.2-1         generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6             2.1.10-1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.6.5-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.10.2-2        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeprint2.2-0       2.10.3-2        The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii  libgnomeprintui2.2-0     2.10.2-2        GNOME 2.2 print architecture User 
ii  libgsf-1                 1.12.1-1        Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.6.8-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.8.1-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2               2.9.5-3         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                  2.6.16-7        GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-4       compression library - runtime

librsvg2-bin recommends no packages.

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