Am 14.11.2011 15:55, schrieb Martin Hediger: > Yes, but there are separate radio buttions for "Selection" and "Pages" > in the "Export as PDF" dialog, so there has to be a difference between > them. > If you have (for instance) a star, a circle and a rectangle on a page and select the star and the rectangle, only these two are on the exported page with the "Selection" option. > > > > Am 14.11.11 14:35, schrieb floris v: >> That depends, perhaps, on the selection - imagine you want to export >> part of a manuscript for a book to PDF so you select 100 pages and >> export the selection. In that case the default A4 page size won't >> hurt. But for what you want to do it's woefully inadequate. >> By the way, there's a thriving community forum at >> http://user.services.openoffice.org/ where your question will get much >> more attention than on any mailing list. >> peter aka floris v >> >> Op 14-11-2011 14:29, Martin Hediger schreef: >>> I guess we agree on that. However, then I dont quite understand what >>> the "selection" option is useful for. Or am I misinterpretating it? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Am 14.11.11 13:33, schrieb floris v: >>>> I see what you want, but that's impossible to implement in a way >>>> that's useful for many people. Because - what's a narrow margin? >>>> Nobody will probably agree on ideal values for margins, and so you >>>> might, even if something like it were implemented, oftenR end up >>>> with a PDF with margins that are either too wide or too narrow. >>>> >>>> Op 14-11-2011 13:11, Martin Hediger schreef: >>>>> Yes, thats probably an option. What I was hoping for was a PDF >>>>> where only the selected elements were present, possibly with some >>>>> kind of small margin of white space. If I draw a 5cm square and >>>>> export it to PDF because i want to include it as a graphics in >>>>> LaTeX, its not very likely to find a paper format for exactly that >>>>> shape, that's why I'm asking. At the moment, I need to reopen every >>>>> drawing in Mac OS X Preview and manually cut/paste the selection to >>>>> a new file. Doing it once is ok, but several times gets >>>>> inconvenient, so I thought there's a smarter way of doing it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Am 14.11.11 11:11, schrieb floris v: >>>>>> Op 14-11-2011 10:33, Martin Hediger schreef: >>>>>>> Dear List >>>>>>> I wonder how I can export a selection from and .odg drawing to >>>>>>> PDF. When I select a number of elements in the drawing, I choose >>>>>>> File->Export as PDF, and in the following Dialog I check >>>>>>> "Selection". However, I always end up with a DIN A4 page with the >>>>>>> selected elements. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is there anything else required to get only the selected elements >>>>>>> into the PDF? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks for any hints. >>>>>>> Martin >>>>>>> >>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>>>>>> >>>>>> What's the problem? Your selection gets converted to PDF with >>>>>> otherwise default settings. If you want a different page size, you >>>>>> may have to copy the selection to a blank document and set the >>>>>> paper size and any other options to what you want before exporting. >>>>>> >>>>>> peter aka floris v >>>>>> >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
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