
I use it so rarely though that I have no muscle memory, I always forget how to crop to the edges of an SVG to get rid of that whitespace. Previously I used Adobe Illustrator to sort that out, now I use Inkscape. I do sometimes have to manipulate SVG icon exports that have excess white space. View and navigate between pages for multi-page image formats. Almost all of the designers I work with hand over Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD prototypes nowadays, and I’m happy using Affinity for personal stuff (Photo for image editing, Publisher for a never-ending cookbook project, etc.).īUT. Inkscape will export/save as eps in case you need it later on (although there are some. It’s just so crazy expensive, and I never need it for client work anymore. I used to use Adobe Creative Cloud for loads of stuff but got rid of it a few months ago.

Under “Orientation”, click the drop-down arrow “Resize page to content”, then click the button “Resize page to drawing or selection”. The dialogue box should open to the Page settings.


Click File in the top toolbar menu, then Document Properties. Open up the SVG in Inkscape, then select all elements in the SVG (cmd+A). Removing whitespace from around an SVG in Inkscapeįor future reference, this is how to remove whitespace from around an SVG in Inkscape according to the version I’m running right now (1.0beta2): Print of pasted images not WYSIWYG, when on-screen and exported to PNG there is a match However when print to printer or PDF, images appear to be correct size and position but content scale is off and is cropped Steps to reproduce: open Inkscape copy and paste image from internet (e.g. Published Thursday, 3 September 2020 by Piper Haywood - Removing whitespace from around an SVG in Inkscape
