Manual talk:$wgSVGConverters

transparent backgrounds

Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

When using imagemagick you can change "-background white" to "-background none" to allow transparent backgrounds.

...or add the key -bg 0.0.0.0 for Batik.--Bandar Lego 14:18, 27 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

image quality

Is the image quality sufficient by media wikis expectations? I just wondered about w:de:Bild:SPI Kaskadierung.svg

Batik under Ubuntu 9x

That's how I managed:

Installed java from sun

aptitude install sun-java6-jdk

Got Batik from Batik (the Ubuntu package seems to be uncomplete)

wget http://mirrors.linhub.com/apache/xmlgraphics/batik/batik-1.7.zip

Dezipped in /opt/batik and made a symbolic link like this:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root    root         9 2009-10-03 16:54 batik -> batik-1.7
drwxr-xr-x  6 root    root      4096 2008-01-06 11:11 batik-1.7

Modifications to LocalSettings.php

# $wgSVGConverter = "rsvg";
# Batik - best results but slow and big
$wgMaxShellMemory = 10000000;
$wgSVGConverters['batik'] = '/usr/bin/java -Djava.awt.headless=true -jar /opt/batik/batik-rasterizer.jar -w $width -d $output $input';
$wgSVGConverter = "batik";

Note: $wgMaxShellMemory is in KB, 10MB is maybe too much

... and the results look much prettier than with rsvg which also answers the previous comment. However, it may not handle certain Inkscape code. I actually installed Batik because I couldn't make the very simple HTML5 overview picture correctly render with rsvg.

Inkscape under windows 2003 Server

I had problems as SVG-thumbnailing always resulted in Error-messages. The trick is, insert the path into the $wgSVGConverters - variable directly and add quotes " because there is a BLANK in the path. So this workes for me:

$wgSVGConverters = array(
     'inkscape' => '"c:\Program Files (x86)\Inkscape\inkscape.exe" -z -w $width -f $input -e $output',
  );
$wgSVGConverter = 'inkscape';
#$wgSVGConverterPath= '"c:\Program Files (x86)\Inkscape"';
#$wgAllowTitlesInSVG = false;

Inkscape command

The given inkscape command no longer works; the following works in my setup:

	'inkscape' => '$path/inkscape $input -w $width -o $output',

rsvg vs. rsvg-convert

Latest comment: 5 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Since apparently the rsvg command was renamed rsvg-convert forever ago, it would be nice if that were updated in the default value so it didn't have to be added. And while on the topic, unless there's a good reason not to, adding svg to the default list for $wgFileExtensions would be nice as well. Justin C Lloyd (talk) 15:35, 1 April 2026 (UTC)Reply