You might try copying each character, switching to a new file, and pasting the character into the new window. It's not exactly exporting, but I have used this method myself. The only thing you need to do is make sure both documents are open at the same time.
As I see it, you could have one character per file, open the character files you want, and ocpy them to each separate comic file.
On 6/5/06, Christopher B. Wright <wrightc@...537...> wrote:
Ted Gould wrote:
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 18:59 -0400, Christopher B. Wright wrote:
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?
You might be asking two different questions here.
Exporting a selection is not currently possible.
You can import any SVG file and it will get included in the current
document. This includes things like defs and other stuff. So if you made all your characters and individual files, chose them using the preview in the file dialog, and them imported them in you wouldn't have to have a large "character palette."
--TedNo, I realize I can import any SVG file, but the thing is that RIGHT NOW all my characters are drawn in a single template file, so *exporting* them is really what I'm interested in. Sure, if they were all separate files that'd be terribly convenient, but in the past that involved manually changing the page size to fit each drawing (the ability to automatically snap the borders to the size of the drawing didn't appear until the pre-release builds for .44) which is far too much work for me.
Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@...537...)
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