Motivated by a request here on the mailing list wrt support for preparing animation frames from within Inkscape based on paths generated with Inkscape's 'Interpolate' extension, I began working on an extension to export a group of paths, or a selection of objects, to individual SVG files in November last year.

Recent testing and feedback by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz (thanks a lot!) introduced more features: export of layers or sublayers to individual files, additional export file formats (PNG, GIF) and optional creation of an animated GIF image of all exported objects (for bitmap-based export formats only). It also introduced a dependency on 'convert' from ImageMagick for the additional file formats.

A snapshot of the current state of the extension can be downloaded for testing from the report in the bug tracker:

* Bug #1530380 “Extension to export objects to separate files for ...” https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1530380

Some known issues and limitations are mentioned in the report description (and later comments) - any further feedback would be appreciated (I'm sorry for the lack of documentation / tutorial at this stage).

Regards, V