Comment 3 for bug 529409

That's an options.

It seems that the width and height were used before, here is a snip of the svg.py file:

        self.width = (aa_image.width+1)*aa_image.nominal_size*aa_image.aspect_ratio
        self.height = (aa_image.height+1)*aa_image.nominal_size
        if xml_header:
            self.file_like.write("""\
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">

<svg width="%s" height="%s" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<!-- automatically generated by aafigure -->
""" % (
                '100%', #self._num(self.width),
                '100%', #self._num(self.height)
            ))
        else:
            self.file_like.write("""<svg width="%s" height="%s" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">\n""" % (
                self._num(self.width),
                self._num(self.height)
            ))

For some reason it seems like the real image width and height is only used when an SVG without header is requested.

I don't know why this is, so I'll wait for Chris Liechti comments before doing anything...