On 28/10/2012 04:55, John Smith wrote:
IMHO the recently change of the label is misleading:
Old:
[ ] Export area is drawing
New:
[ ] Use exported object's size
Neither does Inkscape support to export to PDF by selection, nor is that export area option limited to the one right below:
Would "Use drawing/selection size" be a better label ? Any other suggestions ?
'Selection' seems as misleading (to me): 'Selection' as known e.g. from bitmap export is not relevant (not used) for PDF/PS/EPS export (limiting the export to a single object by entering its ID is different and requires additional efforts by the user to retrieve the information about the ID manually, before saving a copy as PDF/PS/EPS). There is a feature request pending to allow to export the current selection to vector-based formats [1], but it is not implemented AFAIK.
Why not use the previous labels for both options (Export area is page, Export area is drawing) [2]? Those terms are used across the GUI in various places (Export bitmap, Align relative to, Resize page to drawing).
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168627 Bug #168627 “RFE: 'export selection' to vector formats (PDF, eps,...)”
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/499965 Bug #499965 “"exported area is the drawing" and "exported area is the page" aren't alternative in export”