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When copying shapes and use File --> New from Clipboard and export both original and copy to svg with exact same settings, the shapes's dimensions and locations are different. To compensate these changes Designer seems to compensate this by changing the size of the viewBox too so that the complete SVG looks the same when just doing that: watching the whole svg. But that's causing issues and unneeded complexity when using the svg and its shapes inside for interactive usage online. Than 'New from Clipboard' renders the copy pretty much unusable when doing even a little more advanced stuff with the svg. I might be missing something, but to me it doesn't make sense to have the new file with a 75 x 75 viewBox, when the copied circle is 100 x 100 and the viewBox on the original is too. And also if I would have a wrong setting in the exporter set, I would expect both the original and the copy to export exactly the same. Because of this everything in the exported svg (of the copy) is now different: - sizes aren't the same - locations aren't the same - viewBox isn't the same What I would expect to happen instead: The viewBox to be the same size of the boundingbox of the vector-content in the clipboard, or size of an artboard or mask if this is clipping it. Than have the sizes of all curves (=paths) and shapes with the exact same attributes. Of course, positions may change when the copied content is smaller than the original document size, but in this case it's the exact same size, so also the locations should be exactly the same. Which would be easy if the viewBox of the copy would be the same. Please see video below (+ SVG's as attachment): new-from-clipboard-issue.mp4 copy.svg org.svg

I've come up with a better way than I had been saving individual characters from a group. The file will usually come as an .svg, .ai or .eps. I want to keep the character, not the background. I set the fill and stroke, I copy the grouped character, then I create new from Clipboard. The clipboard has no background, only the character, but now the stroke I set to 3.1 is at 2.3 points, or I set it to 4.2 points and I get 3.2. I am happy to report that the checkmarked scaling (Scale with Object) is still checked. This is not a big deal, but I'd prefer to set the line weight only once. Thanks!