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The following commands successfully converts it to 2000×493 and 406×100 pixel PNGs respectively:
inkscape -w 2000 input.svg -o output.pnginkscape -h 100 input.svg -o output.png
But if I specify both width and height (-w 2000 -h 100), both the values are used forcefully, and so the resulting image is distorted (2000×100 px).
Is it possible to specify them in such a way that they are applied as a box instead, that is,
inkscape -w 2000 -h 100 input.svg -o output.pngshould results in 2000×493 px imageinkscape -w 100 -h 2000 input.svg -o output.pngshould results in 100×25 px image
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