I have an Inkscape file that contains (linked) raster images. One 5 MB raster image is used in four places, but is clipped to a small area (i.e. most of it is hidden).
When I export to PDF, the file is very large, at over four times the size of the raster image. I presume that Inkscape embeds the full raster image four times in the PDF.
Is there a simple way to reduce the size of the PDF? One way could be to manually crop the raster image, but then I'd have to lay the page out again. Is there a way to make Inkscape not export the hidden areas?