Comment 4 for bug 168627

Originator: NO

The behaviour you described here is the normal behaviour for the PDF and
EPS formats. The page is the bounding box, objects can be placed inside or
outside of it. Deleting the objects placed outside the bounding box (page)
is not the expected behaviour, as it is very actual in PDFs exported for
printing. In certain cases some specific marks (or comments) can be placed
outside of the bounding box (which is then the "clean" printed area) but
can be still used by the printer. A good example is the so called "slug"
area, placed outside the bounding box, and even outside the bleed area.

Another use of objects placed outside the page are keywords. Some
cataloging/indexing systems place tags into exported PDF files outside of
the bounding box so they are not visible to readers/viewers, but still can
be found/indexed by these systems thanks to these "invisible" portions of
texts/tags/keywords.

I'd say that it is not a bug, and should be transformed into a feature
request, something like a PDF export settings window where you can select
between export possibilities (see the screenshot of Corel's PDF export
setting window I attached to this post).

The only possibility to get rid of these objects placed outside of the
page is to delete these objects before export, or export only selected
objects. Corel Draw's default behaviour is to export PDFs including the
objects outside the page, but has also the possibility to export only
selected objects.

By the way, how did you manage to import a PDF generated by Inkscape
(Cairo 1.4.6) into Corel Draw? I have Corel 12 and it says that the PDF fle
is broken. When I open the PDF in Acrobat 5.0, it rebuilds it before
showing...

Looks like PDF produced by Cairo aren't very "kosher".
File Added: corel_pdf_export_settings.png