Hi all,

I'd like to export a specific area of my SVG to a PDF and I'd like to automate it from the command line.
My issue is that Inkscape can only export the whole page or drawing, or a single object (and only this object).

Things I tried but don't work:

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  --export-pdf=filename.pdf
  ignores

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  --export-area=x1:y1:x2:y2
  completely and always exports the whole page or drawing.
  
  
• Using

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  --export-id=objectid
  works, but it only exports the specified object, i.e. Inkscape acts like

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  --export-id-only
  is set. This is the same behaviour I see when I use the GUI to export a PDF and restrict export to an object ID.

Both of these (--export-area and --export-id) work as intended when exporting a PNG.

The only method that does work is actively changing the page area:



Unfortunately, this is slow as the whole Inkscape GUI has to be started first. The actual PDF export (the second call to Inkscape above) only takes half a second while simply changing the page area takes about 7 seconds and quickly flashes a window.

I also tried a current nightly build (0.91 r13322) without success

Hi,
I would also like to automate the export of specific areas of my Inkscape SVGs to PDFs. Did you ever find a solution to this, other than the slow one you outlined?