Re: Export / paper size problem

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 08.02.2014 21:42, Martin Goik wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks to Steffen I learned how to export images like:
>
> dia my.dia -e my.svg dia my.dia -e my.pdf
>
> The exported images my.svg and my.pdf are intended to be included into
> other documents (docbook 5). Problem: I cannot limmit the bounding box.
> The only option I've found so far is Dia's File-Page setup menu. This
> allows to set some predefined paper sizes all of them being ways too
> large. And there seems to be no way limiting the exported graphic to the
> minmal bounding box. So when embedding these images there will
> invariably appear a vast amount of unwanted padding.
None of Dia's three SVG exporters is using the paper size or margin, so the 
export is always sized by the data extend (minimal bounding box).

For PDF the export is intentionally towards a given paper size, but IMO PDF 
is not a good exchange format for embedding anyway.

If you have problems with the sizing of SVG this should not be the related 
to selected paper size. But the "paper" scale is intended to influence all 
exporters.

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