Inkscape

  1. Bug #168627 (sf1716629)
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 168627

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JiHO (jiho) wrote : Re: [Bug 168627] Re: RFE: 'export selection' to vector formats (PDF, eps, ...)

> It has a export area is page option for PDF (File->Save as...). Please
> test.

The "problem" stays the same as before. The export area is just
clipped to the page but the objects out of the page are still present
in the file (which was actually already the way things were working
before). To test that you can create a document with an object outside
of the page, save it as PDF and:
- view it with a PDF viewer: you'll only see the blank page
- re-open it with Inkscape: you'll see the blank page and the object
outside of the page

That said I am not sure this is a bug. This is actually the way PDF
works: there are several boxes: media box, crop box, art box etc.
which contain objects. You usually only see the crop box, which
corresponds to the physical page, but objects outside of the page can
be used for other purposes: cropping marks, color scales etc. So they
need to stay there.
What Inkscape would need is a way to define theses boxes. But I don't
think they have an equivalent in SVG, or maybe in SVG print but
Inkscape is currently not focused on that.