title: svg handwriting effect ,Can I clip the stroke path to a png image instead of text?
body: <p>first of all, Im new to this webpage and Im really sorry for any mistakes.</p>
  <p>So, I needed to animate a <strong>png image</strong> of a <strong>Calligraphy text</strong> just like a <strong>handwriting effect</strong>.
  Recently I've watched a youtube video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wab7lQKHXL4" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wab7lQKHXL4</a>, its about making a handwriting animation with strokes clipped to texts.
  So I was wondering, if I could clip the strokes to a <em>png image</em> and animate it just like the handwriting animation.</p>
  <p>I tried to import the png image inside inkspace and drawn path on top of it, gave suitable stroke-width saved it as a svg file, and tried to animate it with stroke-dasharray, but its not working ,its not even showing up.
  although I can do the same with written texts just like in the video.</p>
  <p>So is there any way ,I can achieve the same goal using a png image.
  thanks in advance, and sorry if I don't make any sense</p>