hello, I used trace bitmap on an image that has 5x5 rows and columns of icons. Everything was successful, and I have the SVG version of the image. I wonder whether we can single these images in some easy way other than working on extracting each of them manually.

Thanks.

Not that I know; break apart - then rectangle select one icon - go path->combine - 24 times to go. ;-)

Thought so :)

Is there anything in 1.1 that can be helpful ? I saw copy-pasting nodes feature. Not sure whether we can use it here. Thanks.

Maybe cut+paste - but from my experience the pasted parts are rotated for whatever reason.

I find the easiest way to break apart separate items from a traced bitmap is to use Boolean operations.

1. Duplicate the traced path for as many individual items as there are in it.
2. Draw rough shapes over each thing to extract.
3. One at a time, select one of the rough shapes, plus one of the duplicates, and use Path > Intersection.

It's still a manual process which, in this case, will require 25 iterations, but Inkscape does the Boolean operations quickly, whereas dealing with individual nodes can be a lot slower.