I'm completely new to Inkscape so please forgive my ignorance. I imported an image, added some text on top of it and scaled it a bit. However, I do not know how I can crop the image and remove the background. The SVG can be found here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?94ojfxxv3969vnv

Basically, I just want the bottle saved without anything surrounding it. How do I do this?

I'm unable to open your image because I'm using Internet Explorer. But I just posted a reply to a similar question. Please see the last reply in this topic: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5342

But if you still need more help, just reply here, and someone who can open your image can help you further

Thanks for your reply. Im trying to see if theres a way to trace the outline of the bottle and just crop it out, so that I can export it to PNG or whatever format I want. Hopefully someone who can open the file can help me out.

Hi I opened your lalogo.svg in Inkscape and I am not sure what the problem is that you are having. The bottle is a raster image with an alpha channel attached that makes the background transparent so you can do this:

I just inserted a rectangle with a polka dot pattern fill and sent it to the bottom of the z order. is this what you want?

If you are trying to export a bitmap and you are not getting a transparent background you might check document properties to see if your background is getting set to be opaque for some reason but the file that I downloaded has its background transparent.

also are you using export bitmap which is correct or save as PNG which is wrong?