Exporting to SVG without exporting the page?

**The Alien** · 17 October 2019, 11:37 AM

Hi everyone,

Is it possible to export something to SVG without exporting the page/canvas itself?
I'm used to exporting images to .png and .jpg where I select what I want to export and export it. The result is that the exported image only contains what I selected.
However, when I do this and export to SVG the result is always the entire drawing including whatever page/canvas it was on and it contains all other objects on the canvas.
I did not find any hints in the export options dialog. I could of course manually resize the page to whatever objects I want to export which is a bit tedious. My current workaround is to open the SVG in Inkscape and go to Document Properties > Page tab > Custom size > Resize page to drawing or selection. If there is no built-in option in Xara I can just continue to use that workaround instead.
I'm using XDP X9 if that matters.

**Acorn** · 17 October 2019, 11:40 AM

SVG Object exports have only just been fixed in version 16.

Acorn

**Chris M** · 17 October 2019, 11:43 AM

The option to just export a single object to SVG wasn't introduced until v16.1 or .2, I forget which. X9 won't do it I'm sorry to tell you.

**handrawn** · 17 October 2019, 12:40 PM

copy paste it to a new blank xar document - export it is what I do

**The Alien** · 17 October 2019, 12:53 PM

Thanks for the answers. I'll just continue using the workaround.

**mwenz** · 17 October 2019, 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by handrawn

copy paste it to a new blank xar document - export it is what I do

Blank Photo document is what I use...for many types of exports. No page size and so it always uses objects' bounds.

**Acorn** · 17 October 2019, 01:12 PM

Originally Posted by mwenz

Blank Photo document is what I use...for many types of exports. No page size and so it always uses objects' bounds.

Never thought of that.

Great idea as I now have two uses for the Blank Photo template: import of images, export of SVG.

Acorn

**handrawn** · 17 October 2019, 01:47 PM

yes blank photo if page size is an issue

**The Alien** · 18 October 2019, 02:31 PM

Originally Posted by mwenz

Blank Photo document is what I use...for many types of exports. No page size and so it always uses objects' bounds.

Nice, thank you for this solution.

**handrawn** · 18 October 2019, 02:37 PM

it works [with ver 15.1] if you want a page size to be applied to all the vector objects - but it still exports all the vector objects and not just the selected one[s] - so I am now confused [nothing new]