Steve Litt wrote...

>As you can see from viewing this file in Inkscape, more work has to be
>done because the newly scaled group has to be moved to once again fit
>inside the A4 drawing. For a simple drawing like this, that's also
>easy. See this web page:
>
>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Tutorial/Basic_Transformations

Also, please see web page
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/transform#general_transformation
which discusses various transforms including the powerful
matrix(a b c d e f) command.

For more on matrixes and their use with transforms, see the series of
Youtube videos starting with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs&list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFitgF8hE_ab&index=1

For an investment of about 2 hours to view, ponder, and understand,
you'll know how to perform pretty much any linear transform (parallel
lines remain parallel and the origin stays where it is).

HTH,

SteveT

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