Inkscape: enlarge figure without creating distortions

Question

(a) what I have, (b) what I get, (c) what I want

I have a simple vector graphic in Inkscape, which consists of a rectangle, filled points and stars. Since the axis ranges are not really nice (the height equals approximatly 3 times the width of the picture) for a publication, I want to rescale the picture. However, I do not have the raw data, such that I can plot it again. How can I rescale my graphic (see figure (a)), such that the x-range is more wide (see figure (c)) without getting distortions (see figure (b))? In the end I want to create a PDF file out of it.

Any ideas on that?

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

You can try to do it in 2 steps, using the Object -> Transform tool (Shift-Ctrl-M).

First, select everything, and with the transform tool select the Scale tab, and scale horizontally by, say, 300%. All figures will be distorted.

Now, unselect the rectangle, and scale horizontally again by 33.3%, but first click on Apply to each object separately. This will undo the distortion (but not the translation) of each object.

Note that 300% followed by 33.3% should leave the individual objects with the same size.

Documentation here.