If you're on Linux, use imagemagick for this. convert my.pdf -trim trimmed_my.pdf
This should work for any format imagemagick supports for read and write (which includes pdf utilizing ghostscript and svg utilizing inkscape according to the docs) regards Peter P.S.: Of course to be able to do it directly in dia would be a valuable addition nevertheless. Am 08.02.2014 21:42, schrieb Martin Goik: > 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. > > Regards, Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > dia-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
