Fixing SVG Figure Alignment Issues Between Inkscape and Overleaf When preparing a research paper, figures often look perfect in Inkscape but shift after being uploaded to Overleaf. This happened to me while preparing a gas-cost sensitivity chart for a blockchain-based e-voting system. The chart looked fine in Inkscape, but after adding it to Overleaf, some labels moved out of position. The bar values shifted, the log-scale tick labels did not align properly, and the rotated function names looked different from the original SVG. This post explains how I diagnosed the page layout, calculated the correct figure size, and fixed the SVG rendering issue. 1. Finding the exact page layout in Overleaf The first step was to find the actual page size, text width, margins, and font size used by the LaTeX class. In Overleaf, I temporarily added a layout-debug block in the preamble. After recompiling, the values appeared in the raw log file.…