- SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics | MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/image)
This could be done with a simple `println` statement from Julia.
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 8:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/converting-image-files-to-svg/35428/5 "2020-03-03T08:41:53Z")
Even if you just want to embed a pixel image in an SVG, is there a specific reason you want to do this in Julia? There are many perfectly fine command line tools for these purposes, eg
> **[ImageMagick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageMagick)**
>
> ImageMagick, invoked from the command line as magick, is a free and open-source cross-platform software suite for displaying, creating, converting, modifying, and editing raster images. ImageMagick was created by John Cristy in 1987, it can read and write over 200 image file formats. It is widely used in open-source applications.
> ImageMagick was created in 1987 by John Cristy when working at DuPont, to convert 24-bit images (16 million colors) to 8-bit images (256 colors), so they could be di...
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### Author:  [@BLI](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BLI)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 10:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/converting-image-files-to-svg/35428/6 "2020-03-03T10:00:03Z")
> [@Tamas\_Papp](#):
>
> is there a specific reason you want to do this in Julia?
I guess it is the “dream” of a one-language-fits-all. In particular when I need to do batch conversion.
In this specific case, some figures were drawn in Visio, and saved as wmf, eps, pdf, etc. files to try to make the result look nice. Others are mobile phone pictures (bmp, png, etc.) of hand drawings meant for later drawing in Inkscape. Etc.
So I have multiple versions of each file. For some files, I even have svg files in addition to visio files, pdf files, etc. So I need to read all files. For file names where there already is an svg file, I don’t want to overwrite that file. For files where there is no svg file, I’d want to use a pdf file (or Visio file) if such exists. If only bitmap files exist, I’d make a ranking of which has best quality.
Anyway, I’ll take a look at ImageMagick – thanks for suggestion.
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/converting-image-files-to-svg/35428/7 "2020-03-03T10:06:37Z")
> [@BLI](#):
>
> the “dream” of a one-language-fits-all
I am not sure this is a reasonable expectation.
Converting images is a very special task yet well-defined task, so it may not make sense for all languages to develop code for all formats out there (and there are very many).
Tasks like this are not where Julia shines; you would just replace a one-liner (eg calling out to the shell) with another one-liner.
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### Author:  [@BLI](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BLI)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 10:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/converting-image-files-to-svg/35428/8 "2020-03-03T10:11:19Z")
You are probably right. I may take a look at PythonMagick.
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### Author:  [@BLI](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BLI)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/converting-image-files-to-svg/35428/9 "2020-03-03T20:18:21Z")
Aha! `Plots` uses `ImageMagick` for loading. Maybe also for saving? The following works for me:
```julia
load("testimage.png") |> plot
savefig("testimage.svg")
```