As noted on the man page for inkscape, many of the export options (including -D) are only available for PNG export. A request for support of these options under PDF is in the bug tracker at <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171511">https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171511</a><br>
<br>That bug report lists a couple workarounds that you may find useful. I use a command-line utility called pdfcrop, which came with my tetex distribution.<br><br>Tom<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 24, 2008 9:11 PM, Bill Baxter &lt;<a href="mailto:wbaxter@...155...">wbaxter@...155...</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Jan 25, 2008 2:00 PM, Kim Hovorka &lt;<a href="mailto:kimhovorka@...12...">kimhovorka@...12...</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; I wanted to chime in. For some reason I can get any of the other save as options to work when I started downloading the nightly builds over the last few weeks. If I go back to the 45 stuff it works ok. I am just trying<br>
&gt; to learn this a little at a time, I would love to get at least the PDF saving working.<br><br></div>Have you tried save as &quot;PDF via Cairo&quot; ? &nbsp;That&#39;s been working quite<br>nicely for me in recent builds. &nbsp;(Currently using this one:<br>
Inkscape0801231543.7z from here:<a href="http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/" target="_blank">http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/</a>)<br>Course that won&#39;t help you if you&#39;re on Linux or mac...<br><font color="#888888"><br>
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