Exporting an object as svg from inkscape

export-svg-inkscape.md

1. Select the object(s) to export
2. Open the document properties window (Ctrl+Shift+D)
3. Select "Resize page to drawing or selection"
4. File > Save As Copy...
5. Select Optimized SVG as the format if you want to use it on the web

thanks

Thank you, man!

Warning
All it changes is the part of the page that will be shown.
By using this method you will include all the other objects that are on the page.

If you really care about the size of SVG file, you might consider to search for another method for exporting specific object out of page.

This is a somewhat old thread, still, this might be of interest. In Inkscape 0.92, the above recipe works but there's a problem:

• On the exported SVG, GIMP reports that it doesn't contain a size, and proposes to import it into a 500x500 pixel area, which doesn't respect the expoerted aspect ratio. Strangely, GIMP's preview image does have the correct aspect, and the SVG does include a width and size.
• The size and width from the exported SVG does not seem to include line widths, so the rendered image is cropped.

Cheers!

Hmmm. I followed this with the vector image I created in Inkscape. I looked at the difference between the png and the svg I exported, and the png file looked significantly better than the svg.

Any idea why a png would look better than an svg, even though it was created with Inkscape in svg format?

it gives me ine data:image/png;base64 link urli.
How could i export and get the path d=
Please?

Thank you!!!!

Was trying to use inkscape svg on my web page. Gave me quite the headache. Wish I found this sooner. Thanks

thanks!

This is really beauty 🎉🎊

Thankss! very helpful ...

Thanks!!

1. Select object
2. Ctl Shift - R
3. Save

Thanks

With this method u cannot save real vector image

@BoQsc Thanks for pointing that out. I also noticed it because the resulting file had the same size as the source file.

I'm looking for a method for saving a selection into a different SVG file without saving the other objects. I would really appreciate if anyone could tell me how to accomplish this.

@BoQsc Thanks for pointing that out. I also noticed it because the resulting file had the same size as the source file.

I'm looking for a method for saving a selection into a different SVG file without saving the other objects. I would really appreciate if anyone could tell me how to accomplish this.

In 2019

There was an effort to make Save as Copy dialog window to have Export selected objects only checkbox.
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/867

Something went wrong, as these changes no longer are included in the latest master branch, therefore the latest Inkscape program.
I suspect, recently, the author of the source code simply rewritten all functionality of the Inkscape Save Dialog and lazily forgot about the need to re-add and rethink the idea of Exporting selected objects to .svg file.

So we don't have it anymore, even if we had it for some small period of time as the above merge-request suggests.

this step "Select "Resize page to drawing or selection" saves me after 1 hour looking for a solution. Thanks !

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@BoQsc Thanks for pointing that out. I also noticed it because the resulting file had the same size as the source file.
I'm looking for a method for saving a selection into a different SVG file without saving the other objects. I would really appreciate if anyone could tell me how to accomplish this.

In 2019

There was an effort to make Save as Copy dialog window to have Export selected objects only checkbox.
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/867

Something went wrong, as these changes no longer are included in the latest master branch, therefore the latest Inkscape program.
I suspect, recently, the author of the source code simply rewritten all functionality of the Inkscape Save Dialog and lazily forgot about the need to re-add and rethink the idea of Exporting selected objects to .svg file.

So we don't have it anymore, even if we had it for some small period of time as the above merge-request suggests.

I mean, I just copy-pasted the selection to a new document and went from there. Works perfectly. So the steps are:

1. Select object.
2. Copy object (Ctrl-C).
3. Create a new document (Ctrl-N).
4. Paste object (Ctrl-V).
5. Resize page to selection (Ctrl-Shift-R).
6. Save (Ctrl-S), select the Optimized SVG format and customize the setting or leave as is and click OK.

Just Ctrl+Shift+E : it will open the export tool, with tabs for "document", "page", "selection" and "personalized" scopes, no need for obscure tricks this time.