Dunno if this would be of help, but Gimp can import Inkscape paths, and it tends to separate out each individual path, so you might be able to just import the .svg into the paths menu from Gimp and then make selections, etc. Kind of awkward and cumbersome, but that might work.

--- On Sat, 9/6/08, Donn <donn.ingle@...155...> wrote:

From: Donn <donn.ingle@...155...> Subject: [Inkscape-user] Animation via png frames from Inkscape To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 4:34 PM Hi, I have been thrashing around the net looking for a solution and thought to ask here because I can't get no satisfaction ;)

I want to draw the frames of a small animation (ajax throbber) with Ink. Ideally I would do this:

1. Draw the frames - all on one layer. Use tricks like

interpolate etc. 2. Select everything and press *magic button* which would a. Split each object to it's own layer. So I can at least pull it into Gimp and animate/export from there. OR b. Allow me to export each to a png *without* anything in the background so I can go directly to imagemagick to make the final gif.

The problem with things as I find them now (and I hope I am missing the obvious) is that exporting includes stuff that's underneath the bounding box. I want a clean single object/layer in my PNG per frame, not one including all the stuff around/behind it.

A kind of 'batch export each item while hiding *all* others each time' option.

Any hope ?

\d

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