This is cheesey but might work. I say might because I'm at work and don't have Inkscape in front of me. You might also want to work from a copy of the file.

Group the entire image.
Create a shape around the area you want to keep.
Select the grouped image and the shape created in step 2.
Clip - Set.
Export to PNG to the desired dimensions.

Word seems to play nicely with PNGimages.

On 5/14/07, kc106_2005-inkscape@...12... <kc106_2005-inkscape@...12... > wrote:

Hi list,

I suppose this is slightly OT.

I need to copy and paste a portion of my figure over
to Word.  I realize that I can't just do an Edit ->
Copy -> switch to Word -> Paste (although that would
be nice).  So, I have to do it by creating a new file,
save it as EMF file, and then switch over to Word, do
an Insert -> Picture - From File.   That works.
However, the resulting figure is a full page figure -
with lots of empy space.  I also realize that there is
no crop feature in Inkscape.  So, can somebody please
point me to a tool that can crop the EMF file so I can
import it into Word?

Thanks,

--
John Henry

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