Yahoo! Xav, thanks for the great tips. ungrouping, grouping and renaming files kills the most time so this helps a lot! i noticed that in order for the file naming to work correctly, i have to: 1. right click->object properties and change the ID and Label. 2. i had to close the export bitmap window ...

hi brynn, i will definitely check out the link you posted. i have the animating task dialed, its the creation of the frames that takes time for me. i just manually edit the drawings until i get the effect that i want. like for one of my characters, i have at least 25 frames so that i can show walkin...

hi Xav, the clone suggestion solves the transparent background, that helps out a lot since now i dont have to duplicate the rectangles and move them manually. you are right, drawing within the canvas limits is the simplest way. but i do not know how to batch export them if i use the canvas since the...

thanks for the tip, below are 2 images i created, one of them with the transparent background and the other i gave the background a fill color. so i have like 30 of these in the same svg file where in the character have different positions. i anchor the character to the lower left corner. the backgr...

hi thanks for the view mode 'outline tip'. that works! i guess there is no quicker way to have a constant 48px x 48px background behind the image other than manually adding a transparent square?

hi thanks for the reply. What i do is i batch export them as png files so every drawing has its own frame. i drew all of the character movements in one svg file and just export them into individual png files. I need the transparent rectangle because i need the character to be at the same "ancho...

hi all, first post here. I am hoping you can teach me a quicker way of including a transparent background in a drawing. what i do is draw images on inkscape which are less than 48px x 48px. they will be used to animate the image (e.g. walking, shooting, etc.). i've drawn all of the images in one svg...