Martin -
Sorry, I didn't mean that there is such a thing but only that there
could be, in response to the comment that such a feature is
'impossible to implement in a way that's useful for many people'.
- Robert
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Martin Hediger wrote:
I was referring to what you correspond to in your first option, indeed how to
set the margin in the "Export as PDF" dialog of Openoffice Draw. However, I
just checked, I cant seem to see anything indicating something like "margin"
in that dialog.
Am 14.11.11 15:31, schrieb Robert Funnell:
Martin, I'm not sure exactly what your question is.
The answer would be Yes if you mean which Draw dialogue such margin
settings might be in.
The answer would be No if you mean which Inkscape dialogue I'm talking
about. Inkscape has Save as PDF, not Export as PDF, and doesn't have
exactly what I suggest.
- Robert
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Martin Hediger wrote:
And thats in the "Export as PDF" dialog?
Am 14.11.11 14:52, schrieb Robert Funnell:
Exporting a selection with zero margins is very useful - if non-zero
margins are desired, you can add an invisible rectangle of the desired
dimensions and include it in the selection. An alternative would be to
have margin settings in the export dialogue. (These ideas were inspired
by Inkscape.)
- Robert
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, floris v wrote:
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, often 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
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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
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