Comment 2 for bug 1399245

Found this old bug while I was struggling to resize EQ Knobs in my remix of LateNight to 34x34px.
Initial sizes were: Knob 40x40px, Backpath 50x42.5px
Resizing or cropping the Backpath.svg with Inkscape while keeping the original aspect ratio always resulted in offset or squeezing, scalemode setting didn't have any effect.
Saving as Inkscape SVG or plain SVG didn't matter either.
What DID work was to manually delete the viewBox="0 0 X Y" line from the BackPath.svg.
I don't know which app wrote this attribute, Inkscape doesn't when I edit/save the corrected files.
Hope this helps.