Greetings,
I'd like to export everything inside a selection box into a new SVG (or EPS) file, so that any objects straddling the selection box are clipped to fit. A more concrete example is taking a section of a large map, so any streets etc not fully in the selection are clipped to the edges.
The best I've found so far is doing Path -> Intersection with the selection box and the overlapping object selected, which clips the overlapping object to fit in the box, but this has to be done individually for every single object with a new box every time and is rather tedious to say the least. Also, the standard EPS export obeys the paper size blindly, with the double problem of ignoring the actual size of content on the page if it's under the page size (so you get lots of unnecessary whitespace) but also not clipping anything over the edges (so I can't use this trick to clean up either). Is there any way of doing this neatly?
Currently, I'm doing export bitmap by selection and then converting the resulting PNG into EPS, but obviously going through a bitmap format causes huge files and rather defeats the point of using SVG in first place...
Cheers, -jani