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Two common cases are: ...
Yes, that's the part that confuses me. Is text case (a) or (b)? I don't know. If it is (b), what is the bounding box? I don't know.

Take a look atbthe example at section 7.10 of
https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/coords.html#Units

"For percentage values that are defined to be ...

Why do you think it is a bug?
I have 3 clues to think that:

1) other programs (gimp, eye of gnome, firefox i.e.) display the file different: they put the text at (250,250) => 50% of the svg container

2) imagemagick display the rects and other objects whose positions and sizes are set by ...

Yes it is a percentage of something, but not a percentage of the image width and height.


May be...

So, it is a genuine bug... and I am sure it was not present in previous releases (i am not sure since when it is):

I noticed the bug when I tried to convert an old svg file to eps. This old file ...

snbigo, you are rigth: trying x=5000% y=5000% puts the text at (50,50) => absolute coordinates, not relative. I mean, ¡it is not a percentage!

magick, when I try 'display msvg:tmp.svg' I get the following message (also trying with sudo):

display: not authorized `/tmp/magick-3751vvQC3HE6NJOI ...

¿Is this a bug?
ImageMagick does not properly displays TEXTS in SVG files when percentage is used to define position.
Example:
If the file tmp.svg is as shown bellow, 'display tmp.svg' will draw correctly both rectangles, but the text will be placed at (0,0)

===============tmp.svg ...