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`svg` and `png` outputs are different sizes

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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
jupyter-notebook

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Reproduce the report with matplotlib-inline using figure_format set to png and svg, then trace how displayed figure dimensions are determined; done means resolving whether the formats should have equal displayed sizes and covering the expected behavior.

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Description

When using png and svg as the figure_format, I'd expect the displayed figures to be of the same size, but they are not:

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Should they be the same size?

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