in reply to Image Conversion: SVG to PNG

I would recommend ImageMagick, I've always had good experiences with it. It's been a while since I did this last, so most of this is IIRC: PerlMagick is "different" in that installing it from CPAN is probably not the way to go. Under Windows, the installer should install the modules for you, and under *NIX, use the system's package manager to install it into the system Perl, or follow the instructions for building from source (ImageMagick, PerlMagick). On Debian-based systems, one easy way to install all the build dependencies is sudo apt-get build-dep perlmagick.

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Re^2: Image Conversion: SVG to PNG
by kcott (Archbishop) on Apr 23, 2017 at 19:17 UTC

    G'day haukex,

    Thanks for your feedback, links and recommendations.

    Yes, it certainly seems like "CPAN is probably not the way to go". I'm using Mac OS X, so don't have apt-get/yum/rpm/whatever; however, the "ImageMagick: Perl Installation" seems straightforward enough (I'm certainly no stranger to the tar-configure-make incantation). My MSWin requirement is for additional deployment.

    At this point, I'm strongly leaning towards Image::LibRSVG, mainly because of the substantial file size saving. I'll keep ImageMagick in mind as a backup alternative.

    — Ken

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