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Tom,
It is my understanding that you are talking about the new subitem "Export selection" in the File menu, right? It is just that in current state Inkscape does not have the "Export" item, but the export to the formats other than .svg is done through "Save As...". I am using the release version 0.45, so I apologize if it is already different in some latest builds. Anyhow, if you add such item then the total list of choices will be something like:
Save
Save As...
Save As Copy...
Export <-- this one has to be here if the next one is in the list.
Export Selection
Export Bitmap
seems like too much choice, as for me.
Anyhow, none of two ways you presented seem perfect to me, so I offer the third one, combining them.
3) All the exporting is done either through the "Save As" menu (as it is now) or through separate "Export" menu (for all formats except .svg?). For the formats that support the "page size" parameter, the following takes place:
(a) if a selected object is detected in the current document, the checkbox "[X] Export Selection" becomes active, and it is already checked. In case the user realizes that he accidentally left that object selected, then by clearing the box he has a chance to fix it and the page size of the output file will be specified by the the documents page size. If there is any object sticking out of the page margins the, user is warned by a popup window with the choice to automatically "Fix it" by adjusting the paper size, or to "Cancel" the process and return to the document to fix it manually.
(b) if there is no selected object, the page size of the output file is specified by the document's page size with the exception described above.
You decide whether the "[ ] Export Selection" appears in the "Save As..." dialog by default and becomes active when needed, or it just popups in separate dialog (to attract more attention?).
Obviously, I offer this way just because I already saw it elsewhere, and it works. It might not be perfect solution, so it is subject for discussion.
As to Sumatra Viewer. I almost forgot how all this started. Disrespect to the cropbox of the .pdf file is definitely a bug, but I am grateful the developer for this "bug", otherwise I would have never realized why my PDFs generated from LaTex come out so humongous.