Comment 7 for bug 168360

Transformations of the objects, even if they are grouped together, are working properly. But the problem arises if the origin of the drawing (caused by the resizing of the page) changes.

Unfortunately ungrouping and regrouping doesn't fix the problem. Even the restoration of the original page size doesn't help. Obviously the code contains an arithmetic error which is not reversable. The only workaround is to cut and paste the objects into an empty document, as previous posters mentioned already.

It would be great if this bug could be fixed any time soon. Because I very often export Inkscape drawings, that are supposed to be parts of OpenOffice-documentations, as portable network graphics (.png). To avoid big blank areas around the drawing I always reduce the page size to its extents before I do the export. Of course I could export the drawing as a selection in order to get the same result, but then the export dialog suggest an automatically generated filename instead of the one the drawing already has only with a different extension.

However, Inkscape is a very good and precise vector graphics design tool that dramatically increases my productivity and it is extremely intuitive to use. Another big plus is of course, that Inkscape is running on multiple platforms. So many, many thanks to the whole Inkscape team for their valuable work.