I get the feeling this question was asked on the list sometime back, but I can't honestly remember if it was or not.
Currently it's possible to draw a complex image in Inkscape, and export a portion of that image as a bitmap by selecting the "selection" tab on the Export Bitmap panel. What I'm wondering is, is it possible to do something similar with SVG? If I've drawn a complicated object in Inkscape and I want to save parts of that object separately, what do I do?
For example: I draw a webcomic and I've been using Inkscape for it for at least three releases so far. It works pretty well, but I have to keep all the characters saved in a single template file for re-use. The more characters I add the larger the file gets, and if the comic gets too complicated pretty soon the hard drive is thrashing just because there are so many unnecessary elements in the file. It would be great if I could save each character as an individual svg file that I could import into a document as needed, but I can't seem to find any option in the menu that does that.
Is this possible?
Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@...537...)