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I have the same Problem right now, @have did you manage to change your command line so that MSVG is used?

No. I have my server at a hosting company, and I asked them to recompile ImageMagick to use the MSVG renderer. They replied back that they deactivated RSVG and rebuilt IM. This worked, but I ...

Is it possible to let Image Magick detect and extract a clipping path from a JPG?

Right now I do this do detect:

identify -verbose image.jpg | grep Clipping

- which is kind of lame.

I also would like to extract the complete SVG code - as seen with the identify -verbose command.

Possible ...

Report this problem as a bug to the RSVG project. To verify, extract the clip path from

identify -verbose 069415A1.jpg

and put it into clip.svg. Next type

display clip.svg msvg:clip.svg

notice how the cup handle is transparent when using the MSVG renderer (internal to ImageMagick) verses ...

Ahh, hello people with my problem :-)

I might be able to narrow down this problem a bit. Check this out:

http://test.brandhouse.com/convert/clipping_path/clipping_path_bug.png

Notice the difference in versions (6.5.7 vs 6.2.4).

In the four examples, the "current server" fails in example #1 and ...

both your IM and your ghostscript are very very old. IM is at 6.5.6-1 (thats 320 versions past your 6.2.4) and Ghostscript is at 8.5.4. I suspect one or the other has a bug with respect to what you are trying to do. The best thing would be to upgrade.

Ahaa. Well, I did that, but was using an old ...

Maybe this should be posted under "Bugs"?

I have a PDF with a CMYK image as background:

http://brandhouse.com/prince/test_cmyk_image.pdf

The PDF is created with Prince.

If I try to convert this to a JPG:

convert test_cmyk_image.pdf output.jpg

- the GhostScript process "gs" hangs with 100% CPU usage and never completes.

If I ...