After a few tutorials your frustration level will go down and you will find that you can "Crop" as much as you like! Been there, done that, and the fact remains there is no true crop in Inkscape which I clearly explained in my post. Another complaint from other beginners is the lack of a ...

I am amazed, shocked, and disgusted that there in no true crop in Inkscape. This cripples the software for many, many people and in my case makes it the worst graphics software EVER. Inkscape MUST have a method of easily and truly cropping an image, without it I can not do most of what I need to do ...