[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 40163] Export to PDF with option Selection, produces full page export, and not an export based on the area surrounding the selected objects

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40163

--- Comment #47 from Tristan Miller <psychonaut at nothingisreal.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #46)
> PDF is a document format basically to share text with graphics. And those
> documents are usually standardized in A4 or letter.


Your definition is considerably narrower than the one used by the PDF standard
itself, which calls PDF a format for "document" or "information" interchange,
and says that this information may consist of text and graphics, but does not
require that it contain both.  As explained in a previous comment, it is common
in both desktop and professional publishing for purely graphical information to
be stored in a tightly bounded PDF.  This is the de facto standard way of
including graphics in LaTeX (which is ubiquitous in many academic fields) and
of submitting vector artwork to commercial publishers of books and magazines. 
In short, not everyone uses PDF exclusively for standalone text-and-graphics
documents intended for printing on A4 or letter paper; other use cases are
hardly unusual.

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