Comment 24 for bug 1405292

There are way too many variables to say for sure what is going on here. Perhaps if you could reproduce this with a very simple drawing, just a rectangle or two, we could sort it out. The current drawings are far to complex to debug. I suspect that at least one component in the size issue may be clipping, where object sizes extend beyond the edges of the document and they appear to stop there only because of clipping. Clipping support was only added to my EMF library and from there to inkscape fairly recently, and there are still some modes which are not fully supported. (In particular, complex overlays of clipped regions probably will not work.) I also suspect there is an implicit integer sized grid somewhere in your drawing generating software, so that in combination with the resolution page sizes become only approximate.

What software are you using to make the PDFs? Does it output in any other formats? Try to rule out possible glitches in the PDF generation separate from the core of the drawing software.

Moving the drawing into Word is an entirely separate issue. Microsoft has an assortment of glitches in EMF import in PowerPoint, and probably most of these appear on import into Word too, see:

   http://saf.bio.caltech.edu/PPT_G_P_I/

If you want your imports to be entirely glitch free your best bet is to save as a high resolution bitmap image and import that into Word. It will make your Word file large but at least you won't need to deal with any of these format conversion issues. You can probably get from "here" (your current drawings) to "there" (imported into Word as you want) most quickly through this route. Of course you will not be able to modify that bitmap drawing once it is in Word.

At this time I am not available for contract work on this or any other project. Sorry.