On Jul 19, 2008, at 6:21 AM, Patrick wrote:

I should be able to write a Python or Bash script to convert a bunch of

files, which of course I will share if anyone is interested.

Does anyone know if there is a way to create a hotkey function(on Linux)

to auto-increment a save as? For example 1.svg, 2.svg, 3.svg etc.....

Would this not help to take the tedium out of creating many frames?

If there is not one, could someone guide me to the portion of the code

that contains the save as code? perhaps I could come up with something.

A file per frame is probably the least efficient approach for SVG animation.

There are two main approaches for it in SVG. The first is declarative SMIL type animation where <animate> <set> <animateMotion> and <animateColor> are used to animate things.

The second is animation via DOM manipulation. This can be done different ways, including via javascript.

Among the other advantages over bare flip-book style is that animations can be run at different frame rates without any changes. The sources are also much smaller.