[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki 1.7.0 and SVG support

Mon Jul 10 18:21:48 UTC 2006

I don't know much about SVG, but why would any external program need to
rasterize an SVG image.  I thought that the whole point of SVG was that
it could be scaled very easily and not lose any detail.

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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church
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On 10/07/06, Bekki Janssen <bekki.janssen6 at merseymail.com> wrote:
> Does MediaWiki 1.7.0 automatically support SVGs???

Since I resort to shouting RTFM when I want to be a total asshole,
allow me to kindly point you to
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:%24wgSVGConverter.

MediaWiki supports SVG images in as far as you can allow them to be
uploaded, and specify an application to use to rasterise them to PNG
images; similar to how it can interact with ImageMagick or another
converter, to scale images server-side.

Rob Church
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