To bring some water to the mill, I had a "squashed" image problem importing in Scribus (those also on that list saw it).

The image I drew is based on a vectorisation of a picture through VectorMagic, the vectoriser of Stanford University, which did add the viewbox attribute to all files I created through there. It is possibly also the case of files created in AI !

viewBox="0 0 132 175"

A small Inkscape file does not create such an attribute. But is there indeed a place in the Inkscape GUI where it is visible?

Cédric