<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Raster images have an intrinsic size, the number of pixels. When scaling SVG, you scale based on the explicit size the document states. So 50% is half of the explicit document size. They wouldn't be called scalable vector graphics if you couldn't scale them externally. ;)</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Oct 26, 2007, at 9:41 PM, Devi Web Development wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">While you could say a raster image has an intrinsic size (I have no<br>idea what the formal definition of this phrase is), SVGs *explicitly*<br>state their size. To change the size, you would actually be violating<br>the content of the image file itself. I think the best way to<br>understand this would be to look over what an SVG is. The vectors are<br>given a scale within the file, not externally.<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">— Timothy Hatcher</span></span></font></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>