Export to PDF does not preserve the document size

Had the same problem exporting an A4 paper, and resulting
the letter page. Exported to PS and converted to PDF with
ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 foo.ps foo.pdf.

I had the same problem with A3 paper size export to PDF. The
image was cropped.

I used this workaround:
export to eps with bounding box
use epstopdf to create the PDF file

I experience the same problems. I have an A3
document in inkscape which result in an A4 PDF
document when exported. From the Jabber channel I
learnt, that inkscape saves as PS first and then relies
on ghostscript to convert to PDF. The error at hand is a
ghostscript issue, because a saved PS document has a
bounding box of correct size.

Specifying -sPAPERSIZE=A3 as argument for ps2pdf14
(which uses gs for conversion) results in a correct sized
PDF.

So I guess the right path is to cpmplain to the
ghostscript guys to get the PDF size from the PS
bounding box and perhaps to add a workaround to
inkscape to specify the papersize for ghostscript.

A wish related to this bug:

Once there is a workaround for the ghostscript page size
specification, it would be nice to have an option to export to pdf
with a page size that exactly encloses the selection (or the
complete drawing). This functionality already exists in the "Save
as eps" dialog for the bouding box.
This is needed e.g. when creating graphics to be used with
pdflatex.

The workaround with manually converting the ps/eps file to
pdf only works for images without transparency. (e)ps
doesn't support transparency, but pdf does. So I hope this
issue will be resolved soon. Thanks!

Any progress on this bug? It is really frustrating to work
with a large (11in x 14in) image and have it cropped to
letter size when exporting...

I think this bug deserves a higher priority: it makes export
to PDF unusable when working with large images.

By the way, if your image size is not one of the standard
ones (letter, A4, A3,...), then you can manually specify
size using the following option for ps2pdf:

-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=w -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=h
where w, h is width and height in points (1pt=1/72 inch)

Fixed in svn. Will be in next release. Please try a nightly
build of either 0.44.1 or 0.45 and report any success or
failures.