How can I add padding or margin easily when exporting drawing or selection to bitmap?
What I've been doing is changing the width and x, y values when exporting but it's a lot of work when exporting many selections one by one.
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1Does this answer your question? Getting rid of Whitespace in Inkscape As noted, you can add margins as you resize the page– JohnBNov 27, 2013 at 3:57
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@JohnB: Very good solution, better than using the selected solution, at least in some cases.– minsAug 4, 2017 at 9:55
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I'm tempted to just add margins with Imagemagick: askubuntu.com/questions/819482/…– Ciro Santilli Путлер Капут 六四事Dec 24, 2020 at 18:31
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I simply mark the whole drawing, and resize the page to it, so that the page has the desired margin to the drawing. I nearly always use page format A4 landscape or A4 portrait with visible page border.
While bitmap exporting, I can easily choose between drawing, page or selection.
Another technique is to use several rectangles used for cropping/exporting:
- Create a new layer, called Export for example. Place it beneath other layers.
- In this layer, create rectangles that will define what areas you will want to crop/export. Maybe white rectangles beneath your objects.
- Export each rectangle individually: select a rectangle, go to
File > Export bitmap(or Ctrl-E), en chooseSelectionbefore exporting. - When you need to make modifications, you can either export a rectangle individually, or all at once (Select them all - the export dialogue box has a
Batch export all selected objectsoption). But exporting them once beforehand will determine their location and file name.
Tip: If you don't want have visible rectangles when exporting, you can select them, then hide them by hiding the export layer (but the rectangles will still be selected), then export them.
