# SVG to JPG: preserve the circle, check the dimensions

By the Image to JPG team · 9 November 2026. We operate the converter used in this walkthrough.

A 600 × 300 drawing should remain twice as wide as it is tall. Our original Mesa card includes a circle so that stretching is easy to spot.

1. Download the original SVG from the Mesa card specimen. Keep that source for future exports.
2. Open our SVG to JPG converter and add the SVG.
3. Set quality to 90%, Width to 240, leave Height blank, and keep aspect ratio enabled. Apply shared settings to images already queued, then convert and download.
4. Inspect the downloaded file. In our run it was 240 × 120 pixels, 3,236 bytes. The circle remained round.
5. To reproduce the failure case, set Width and Height to 240, turn aspect ratio off, apply the settings to the queued image, and convert again. Our second result was 240 × 240 pixels, 3,908 bytes: the circle became a tall oval.

See both actual exports side by side. These byte counts describe this specimen and these settings; they are not a promise for other files.

If you need a square composition, crop or reposition the artwork in an editor instead of forcing a rectangular drawing into square dimensions. JPG is opaque and lossy. Keep the SVG master; use an alpha-capable format when transparency matters. Check external fonts and linked images before converting complex SVG files.

Disclosure: maker-authored tutorial, not an independent review.