SVG images blocked by gmail proxy

I’ve heard back from Google support, and they’ve confirmed there are currently no plans to support SVG images in the proxy. They said they account for only 1 in 100,000 email images.

Apart from PhantomJs, an option for simpler svg is the php plugin ImageMagick.

Here’s some sample code to get you started:

header("Content-Type: image/png");
header("Content-Disposition: inline;");
if (empty($svg)) {
    readfile("invisibleImage.png", true);
} else {

    //TODO: You'll probably want to set headers to cache the returned image

    $filepath = "/path/to/where/images/are/cached/";

    if (!file_exists("$filepath$svgName.png")) {
        if (!is_dir($filepath)) {
            mkdir($filepath, 0700, 1);
        }
        file_put_contents("$filepath$svgName.svg", $svg);
        $cmd = "rsvg-convert $filepath$msk.svg > $filepath$svgName.png";
        exec($cmd);
        unlink("$filepath$svgName.svg");
    }
    readfile("$filepath$svgName.png");
}

You’ll want to install at least some of the following:

apt-get install librsvg2-bin libpng3 imagemagick libpng12-dev \

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