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(Get the code!)
I see this has been closed for four years, but the issue still remains, in certain use cases involving frequent saving of parts of a master document, this would be a huge timesaver.
Ideally, one could ...
(1) select parts of a drawing
(2) export selection as ...
where the default behavior of the requested feature would be to crop the resulting page dimensions to the size of the selected objects. Instead, what we have to do now is ...
(1) select parts of a drawing
(2) copy
(3) new document
(4) paste
(5) file -> document properties -> fit page to selection
(6) export ...
(7) close without saving, dismissing dialog boxes to do so
Replaceing (2)-(4) with
(2) invert
(3) delete
only works if the objects are all in the same layer, which may not be the case.
In my own case, I am using a pen tablet to write out the steps of a calculation for presentation as a slideshow in class. Each major step goes into a different layer for (hopefully possible) transformation, via a script, to a step-by-step uncovering of the steps of the calculation. However, I also want to recycle the steps of this calculation -- in pieces -- for inclusion into a manuscript with added textual commentary.
Now of course, in my own case, I could do a native LaTeX presentation and extraction. But handwriting is much faster even than LyX, and way faster than direct LaTeX and beamer \uncover<> steps. The only way to do this is with a pen tablet, or not at all. And I suspect other use cases exist.