Because of the lack of support for SVG in current web browsers we need a solution for showing the users the icons within our project MAP-it.
The default GD library doesn’t support the SVG graphic format. We had to turn to Image Magick. If you are not allowed to execute on your webserver you can’t use the Image Magick Library from Linux. But you can always ask your webhost to install the iMagick php library which offers the same functionality without requiring exec() rights. Continue reading