As I mentioned in an earlier message, I am using Inkscape to make Firefox theme icons from Vadim Plessky's Blue Sphere svg set. The icon sizes run from 96x96 down to 16x16. For the smaller icons it is important for me to maximize the image size within the drwaing window.

I make extensive use of the transposition bar that is visible when the selection tool is active. This allows me to carefully place and size my icon images. In my earlier message I noted that a problem with selection often causes me to inadvertantly vastly increase the vertical size of the selected image. So for example, if H was 69.2 and I want it to be 128, I end up with 12869.2.

What happens is surprising: even though I have not selected the fixed proportions option, Inkscape changes the size and location of the image. The W field is generally huge, and the X and Y fields are genrally pushed into negative numbers.

These changes occur even when I make small changes to an image. If I am working in a 128x128-pt window with an image that I want to enlarge to 128x128, I find that the dimensions and locations change from what I have inputted, so that 128 will be 126.7, for example. I often have to keep putting in the values I want. The the number will go to 127.4, 127.99, etc.

Unlike the tab selection issue, which simply looks like a neglected corner of code, I wonder if there is something more fundamental here.

Thanks

Ed