EPS export does not respect "Bleed/margin (mm)" setting
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Inkscape |
New
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Medium
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Bug Description
Inkscape 0.91 r13725 on Windows 7 64bit
The "Bleed/margin (mm)" option introduced in Inkscape r11847
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has no effect when eps files are exported. (Or the effect is hard to predict.)
Load .svg file.
EPS export: Save as ... .eps, set "Bleed/margin (mm)" to 20 mm.
compare to
PS export: Save as ... .ps, set "Bleed/margin (mm)" to 20 mm.
PS file has additional margin when opened in ps_view 5.12 (Ghostcript 9.16, Lua 5.1, wxLua2.8.10.0, wxWidgets 2.8.10)
EPS file has no additional margin around the drawing.
This is related to bug #380501 "eps export always sets bounding box to drawing, never to whole canvas", over there is a discussion if the additional whitespace/
For a good workflow having a margin in eps files is important.
Currently the "Bleed/margin (mm)" option is useless during eps export.
Proposed fix: override the eps Boundingbox calculated by cairo with Boundingbox+margin.
Would also fix: bug #595821 bug #380501
The attached .eps file was exported with 20 mm "Bleed/margin (mm)" choosing "whole page".
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| tags: | removed: import-export postscript |
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| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Funny things happen if the Inkscape page is smaller than the drawing and the area of the page plus margin is partly larger than the drawing:
The bounding box than neither is the page nor the complete drawing but something in between.
See attached eps file which was exported with 20 mm "Bleed/margin" and the following svg and ps files for reference what should be expected.