[magick-users] Preserving alpha channel (SVG -> PNG)

[Claus Cyrny]

Hi all,

I'm new to this list, and right now I would like to convert an SVG
file (from Inkscape; I saved it as 'plain SVG', though) into a
16-bit/channel PNG, which basically works, but there's no alpha
channel (white background color instead).

I tried 'convert -compress none -depth 16 -fill FFFFFFFFFFFF0000
-gamma 1.0 -sample 3996x3068 [filename].svg [filename].png',
but there's still no alpha channel. (The SVG covers only  part of
the Inkscape document; the remaining part should hopefully
be transparent.) The part 'FFFFFFFFFFFF0000' (which I took from
the ImageMagick web site) resulted in an error message, because
the color wasn't recognized by ImageMagick. A '#' in front of the
hex numbers didn't work, either; the same with 'rgba(0,0,0,0)'.

Does anybody  know a solution to this?

TIA,

Claus

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