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I haven't been able to find anything other than a recent request for this. It's in Figma and Inkscape and Illustrator kind of does it: Object" > "Artboards" > "Fit to Selected Art" (also works with several objects in a selection, I read).

I feel like the document setup too often assumes you already know the size of the graphic you're creating in Designer. I often don't, as I frequently create elements that suddenly take their final form. Then I just want to save them right after doing what I've done 10,000 times in Inkscape, resize page to selection.

It's an unnecessarily large workaround to copy and choose new from clipboard, and even then the DPI changes, I believe. It's especially a cumbersome maneuver when working on an iPad, as I often do, and you have to jump in and out of the open document.

So, I'm requesting a very useful feature that should be quite feasible to implement, and it would be a relief in my workflows: Resize Page/artboard to Selection.

It's as if you were kind of going in that direction with "Convert object to artboard", but the feature only works with single object selected, and that's not usable for me. 

Where and how it can be implemented in the user interface, especially on iPad, where Designer apparently doesn't have a document setup after the document is created??? I'll leave that to you. 🙂

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You are right there is no dedicated function for resizing the artboard / page to the selection.

But there is a functionality in the Artboard tool to create artboard that size will match the selection.
This option can be used as a workaround for what you are requesting.

Scenario 1 - While creating new doucument don't check the "Create artboard" chcekcbox.

  1. Just select the object to wchich you want fit the page/ artboard size.
  2. Use the Artboard Tool and in the size dropdown choose "Selection"
  3. Click the "Insert Artboard" command button
  4. The page wil be changed to an artboard that size wil fit the selection you made.

Scenario 2 - While creating new doucument you did check the "Create artboard" checkbox to start with an artboard not an page.

  1. Just select the object to wchich you want fit the size.
  2. Use the Artboard Tool and in the size dropdown choose "Selection"
  3. Click the "Insert Artboard" command button
  4. A new artborad with the size of the selection will be created ont top of the primary artboard.
  5. In the Layer panel move the object that was used as a selection to the newly created artboard. If you wisch delete the primary one.

Here's a video for scenario 2↓

 

 

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1 hour ago, Aurea Ratio said:

I'll have to settle with that until Serif makes something automatic and more accurate than my hands! 😄

You're welcome @Aurea Ratio;-).
But don't expect it to bee soon. 
They are a small team and have to prioritize things and there's also a lot of bugs that they need to deal with.

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Yes, I know the game!

If I were to conclude with a personal comment for Serif, however, it would be that I think this feature has been missing since v1.0. I remember my sigh of relief when I used it in a very, very early version of Inkscape back in 2005, it's just as natural a feature as cutting paper for a drawing, painting, printing graphic artist. 🙂 

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