Comment 11 for bug 168627

Originator: NO

thank you for the example files, they will be useful in the future. I am
sorry but I cannot check with sumatra pdf (I am working on a mac) but
apparently latex treats the pdf file correctly because its position in the
resulting pdf does not seem to take in account the object outside the page,
only the page itself. displaying objects outside the bounding box is a
feature indeed, but should only be activated when the user asks for it
(such as selecting the display of the media box, bleed box or such). Are
there such options in sumatra PDF viewer?
As for the export in Inkscape, it would indeed be very nice to have as
much flexibility in vector export that in raster export (export only page,
only selection, etc. You could search for a RFE about this and add one if
necessary, that would be welcome). However, discarding some parts of a
vector drawing would probably have to be done by clipping/masking it and
this is also non desctructive (the clipped part are not displayed any more
but are still there). If one wants to actually suppress everything outside
an area, this has to be done via boolean operations and their results are
non trivial as soon as there are some complex, self intersecting paths that
would have to be cut by these operations. You can try them from Inkscape
currently and see how difficult they can be. This probably does not answer
your concern sorry, but this is all I could think of ;)