On 28-10-2012 3:12, Bryan Hoyt | Brush Technology wrote:
I agree. Additionally, something like this would be incredibly useful for printing purposes when you export "area is page". If you have objects that bleed over the the edge, you generally want to export a slightly larger PDF to include a few mm over the edge of the page, so it can be trimmed down to size afterwards.
Slightly different use-case, perhaps, but very similar functionality.
Just committed to trunk, r11847. I'm sorry if breaking the feature freeze rule for this (oct 26?); I hope it is relatively harmless. For minimum impact, the current feature assumes the margin/bleed is specified in millimeters (we don't have proper unit support for extensions it seems).
It would be quite useful to make it a per-document preference.
I don't know how to do that for output extensions (without making a terrible hack).
I believe the PDF format can explicitly specify "bleed" and "display" regions, or similar. Making sensible use of those feature would seem a good idea, but that said, I've found most printers can work just fine with a slightly larger-than-page PDF.
If anybody wants to pursue this, have a look at: http://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/page_boxes
Cheers, Johan