Convert SVG to JPG/PNG

[wojoj93]

hi, I have a problem with converting svg file to jpg/png via imagick: here is code:

$image = new \Imagick(); $image->readImage('old.svg'); $image->setImageFormat('png'); $image->setImageCompressionQuality(100); $image->writeImage('new.png'); $image->destroy();

result: SVG: PNG/JPG:

Could someone tell me what I do wrong?

[Danack]

Can you provide the original SVG as an svg, rather than the PNG that is appears to be on github?

Also, can you say how you installed Imagick please?

[wojoj93]

Thank you for your reply. Here is an original svg:

Installation process:

Imagick

RUN apt-get install -y libmagickwand-dev
&& pecl install imagick
&& docker-php-ext-enable imagick COPY imagick/policy.xml /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml

[Danack]

Okay, I get the same error using Imagick/ImageMagick.

I'd suggest opening an issue at their repo here: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6

However....you probably just want to get your stuff working.

There have been so many SVG problems with ImageMagick, I pretty strongly recommend using Inkscape to convert files instead of Imagick/ImageMagick.

inkscape can be install through apt and then to convert a file, it needs to be invoked with something like:

inkscape "old.svg" --export-filename="./output_inkscape_directly.png" \
  --export-dpi="96" \
  --export-background="white" \
  --export-background-opacity="255" > inkscape_output.txt 2>&1

I should probably write this down in the docs.

Inkscape is a dedicated SVG converter, it's always going to be more reliable than ImageMagick, where the maintainers have many other things to worry about.