Setting your Inkscape Preferences to a geometric bounding box will ensure that both bounding box dimensions on tool and in Inkscape match up with one another. Origin calculates the bounding box based upon the middle of the stroke. Inkscape defaults to a visual bounding box, with includes stroke width in its calculation of the bounding box's dimensions. inkscape 'C:pathship.svg' -o 'C:pathship.png' or inkscape 'C:pathship.svg' -export-filename'C:pathship. And still, you can use only one of them since -o is just the shortcut for -export-filename. Go to Edit > Preferences > Tools and select 'Geometric Bounding Box'. (On Mac: Inkscape > Preferences >. You should use -o or -export-filenameFILENAME instead. Go to Edit > Preferences > Input/Output > SVG Output and match your settings to those found below. (On Mac: Inkscape > Preferences >.
The Inkscape SVG file type will include extraneous data that will not be used by Origin. Save your file as a 'Plain SVG' rather than the 'Inkscape SVG' that Inkscape defaults to.*Note that the scale value (underlined above) will change based upon your selected units (Inkscape will default to 96 points per inch and 3.77953 points per millimeter) Make sure that your display units and document units match.Now I will choose this image of the EDUCBA logo. Take your png image in Inkscape and for that, I will go to the File menu and click on the Import option of its scroll-down list. Let me explain to you how you can do this. Go to File > Document Properties to select your default units. Before converting a png image into svg we have to convert a png into a vector file. Use real world units (millimeters or inches) rather than pixels.If you're using Inkscape to design files for Origin, you'll want to make a few changes to how Inkscape saves and prepares file prior to sending your file to Origin.