adding padding when exporting from inkscape

slinky

I noticed that the photoshop exporting plugin has an option to add padding to all your images, however the Inkscape exporting extension lacks this feature. Would it be possible to implement this for Inkscape as well? Currently some of my images exported from Inkscape look bad since the selection cuts too close to the image so some of the anti-aliased edges don't entirely show in the final image. Padding solves this, but at the moment I have to do it manually for each image by adjusting export selection x, y, width & height.

slinky

nimbling

As an in-between fix, could you group your objects with invisible rectangles that form your margin?

slinky

I suppose that it might be slightly quicker than doing it all manually, but it still requires making an appropriately sized rectangle for each image to export. This seems rather tedious and would be greatly simplified with the padding options. Would the developers please consider adding this feature for Inkscape? I'd imagine it not being too difficult since the feature is already done for Photoshop. Maybe there's a couple lines of code that I could just add to my Inkscape extension file?

Mario

I've added a feature request to the tracker here: Add padding setting to Inkscape export script · Issue #107 · EsotericSoftware/spine-editor · GitHub I can't give you an ETA when this will be live, but I'll look into it.

slinky

thank you, much appreciated.