Comment 5 for bug 168627

Originator: YES

> 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.

O. I agree here. Apparently, I misunderstood the inkscape inteface,
assuming that if regular PDF Viewer does not display the objects beyond the
page boundary, and inkscape does not ask anything before export, then the
only exported objects are within the page area.

> I'd say that it is not a bug, and should be transformed into a feature
request,

agree. Current behavior is dumb and User needs a choice. Same with .eps
files. Although, we have a choice when exporting to bitmaps.

> 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
file is broken.

same here.

> When I open the PDF in Acrobat 5.0, it rebuilds it before showing...

more than that... If you save that rebuilt file from Acrobat - it destroys
all the objects behind the page boundary. So apparently this is what I have
to do with my files in order to get rid of garbage.

Actually I cheated. I created a latex document using pdftex, with my image
(exported from inkscape) included.
The resulting document can be opened in corel draw and all the objects are
exposed, although you cant see them previewing the document in Acrobat.
However, there is also that Sumatra PDF viewer
(http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/) which also shows the
extra objects because of the bag (or maybe feature in the software)