Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Ok, I've now read the note that explains that imagemagick rasters everything forth and back, so I'm simply using the wrong tool anyway (I wrongly thought vectors would be maintained in vector-vector conversions - I seemed to remember I had used IM before for such tasks, I was confused, I must have ...

Then why does it support svg and pdf formats?

Steps to reproduce: 1) convert someimage.png output.svg or 2) convert somepdf.pdf output.svg where the pdf contains embedded images. Expected: the image/s should be embedded in the svg in the form <image xlink:href="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgo........" etc> Observed: every pixel of the image ...