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.