diff --git a/make-includes/standard_rules.make b/make-includes/standard_rules.make
index 94908a3..1ed2bc0 100755
--- a/make-includes/standard_rules.make
+++ b/make-includes/standard_rules.make
@@ -88,10 +88,11 @@
 #
 # PDF from SVG (via Inkscape)
 # We remove the intermediate file manually rather than through the tidy/clean
-# mechanism.
+# mechanism. We don't use Inkscape's --export-area-drawing option to crop,
+# because it crops slightly too closely.
 #
 %.pdf %-print.pdf: %.svg
-	inkscape --file=$< --export-text-to-path --without-gui --export-pdf=$(IMGDIR)/$*-tmp.pdf
+	inkscape --file=$< --without-gui --export-pdf=$(IMGDIR)/$*-tmp.pdf
 	pdfcrop $(IMGDIR)/$*-tmp.pdf $(IMGDIR)/$@
 	-rm -f $(IMGDIR)/$*-tmp.pdf
 #