# Why is luxor generating 0-byte files?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-luxor-generating-0-byte-files/132198
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** question, luxor
**Created:** [September 8, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-luxor-generating-0-byte-files/132198 "2025-09-08T19:43:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![JeffreySarnoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jeffreysarnoff/32/1980_2.png) [@JeffreySarnoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JeffreySarnoff)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-luxor-generating-0-byte-files/132198/1 "2025-09-08T19:43:46Z")

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```julia-auto
using Luxor
@svg juliacircles(150) 400 400 "test1"
@png juliacircles(150) 400 400 "test2"

readdir() # file size name
09/08/2025 03:40 PM 0 test1.svg
09/08/2025 03:41 PM 0 test2.svg

```

julia\> versioninfo()  
Julia Version 1.11.6  
Commit 9615af0f26 (2025-07-09 12:58 UTC)  
Build Info:  
Official [https://julialang.org/](https://julialang.org/) release  
Platform Info:  
OS: Windows (x86\_64-w64-mingw32)  
CPU: 32 × Intel(R) Core™ i9-14900K  
WORD\_SIZE: 64  
LLVM: libLLVM-16.0.6 (ORCJIT, alderlake)  
Threads: 1 default, 0 interactive, 1 GC (on 32 virtual cores)

```julia-auto

```

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### Author: ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-luxor-generating-0-byte-files/132198/2 "2025-09-08T20:06:47Z")

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> [@JeffreySarnoff](#):
>
> ```julia-auto
> using Luxor
> @svg juliacircles(150) 400 400 "test1"
> @png juliacircles(150) 400 400 "test2"
> 
> ```

can’t reproduce here:

 ![Screenshot 2025-09-08 at 21.05.27](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/b/5/b56b753ae87e20eb55e7c5df267d194437b0800a.png)

🤔

Perhaps try with providing proper file extensions (`.png` or `.svg`)?

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### Author: ![JeffreySarnoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jeffreysarnoff/32/1980_2.png) [@JeffreySarnoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JeffreySarnoff)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-luxor-generating-0-byte-files/132198/3 "2025-09-08T20:20:24Z")

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I was using a very old version (oops).

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### Author: ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-luxor-generating-0-byte-files/132198/4 "2025-09-08T20:29:06Z")

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Luxor’s 10 years old now! 😱 🙂