Comment 21 for bug 168627

> Mr. Trabajos, in fact I did mention this in one of the posts above, but anyway.
Excuse me if my question seems repetitive or reiterative. Rest assured that whenever I take part in a report it's because I read the messages before. I just need to know the details of user's workflows so I can amalgamate a solution in my brain. The problem, as I see it, is that there are three kinds of cases were the user would want to export only parts of the whole document (this is a hodge-podge of what everyone said):
1* Several graphics inside a file: Like having many finished graphics ready for exporting to different output files. For instance: you've a file 2009_party_flyers.svg, which is a project containing many finished artworks related to a party, and you need to export areas of it to different PDF files: 2009_party_flyers-3x2in.pdf, 2009_party_flyers-A4.pdf, 2009_party_flyers-4x5in-b&w.pdf, ... In Illustrator this is called Artboards. With this approach the concept of *one* and only one page doesn't exist anymore as there are multiple "pages" inside a file. Exporting to PDF one of these regions would export only objects in it and the bounding box applied would be the size of each region. Your comment #14 about "projects" seemed to go in that direction.
2* Graphics outside the page area for work but not output: Many people have work-in-progress copies of graphics they place later on the page, either as a copy or a clone. I do this continuously. I play a lot outside of the page before starting compositing the drawing on it. It's a playful way to develop and experiment without the risk of messing the main artwork. Users would want to export only the page area (and avoid everything outside).
3* Exporting just a selection: Only the selection is exported with the bounding box as the page size. It has been mentioned along this report too.

Your comment #14 made me think that you would benefit from case 1*, while comments #16 and 20# seemed to point to case 2*. There my confusion and why I reiterated the question on my comment #19.

Of course, this is not directly related to your problem, Mr. Korneta, as all three points above will need from a "do not include objects outside of area of interest in PDF"; and this should be an option as some users want to keep them while others might not. When I see reports with many user experiences I try to develop a multilateral solution and thus I've to ask a lot ;).

Now my 2 cents:
Ideally, a slicing tool should be integrated into Inkscape that could set "export areas" (like in case 1*), with the option to export outside objects or not. The layout of options in the PDF export dialog would be:
* Export area: page, whole drawing, selection or slice X.
* Keep objects outside of export area: yes|no
* (Rest of options are kept).
This would cover case 1*, 2* and 3*.
The slice tool would be the same for bitmap exporting for webs.
(I know this last part is a bit sketchy, like how to interact with it or store the slices and those insignificances ;) ).

Regards.