Text that's tight against its viewbox gets clipped: https://i.ibb.co/BGQVzzx/text-clipped.png Here's the code: % SOF \startbuffer[svg] <svg width="41.806641mm" height="25.692665mm" viewBox="0 0 41.806641 25.692665" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="m 20.90332,25.692664 v -12.4787" style="fill:none;fill-opacity:1;stroke:#000000;stroke-opacity:1" /> <text x="-0.99609375" y="8.6484375" style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;font-family:Roboto;-inkscape-font-specification:'Roboto, Normal';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><tspan x="-0.99609375" y="8.6484375" style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;font-family:Roboto;-inkscape-font-specification:'Roboto, Normal';font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">16p13.3</tspan></text> </svg> \stopbuffer \starttext \placefigure[]{}{\includesvgbuffer[svg][conversion=mp]} \stoptext % EOF