Re: Export / paper size problem

[Peter Wendorff <Peter Wendorff gmx de>]

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
>
>
>
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