I have a SVG border for Arabic text. I want some text to display inside the border and some outside (left or right).

1. How do I scale the SVG?

Right now it is gigantic.

background-image:url('border 40pt 6x9.svg') ;

2. How can I float text outside and not on top of each other?

Jim Albright
Wycliffe Bible Translators

Does the SVG have width and height attributes?

If I'm understanding the float issue correctly, I think it is a known issue where floats with negative margins taken outside the normal flow can overlap. We will try to fix this in a future release.

1. Yes it does have width and height internally. I'll try playing with those. I was wondering if there was some way outside the graphic to control it to make it fill the background space.

2. Yes I used negative margins to achieve a sidebar affect. Thanks for working on this problem. I have section heads in sidebar with all the cross-references for whole section found right under the section head.

Jim Albright
Wycliffe Bible Translators

I just downloaded Inkscape. Wow!

Jim Albright
Wycliffe Bible Translators