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SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics, a [[XML]] based format) can be converted to the PDF format at runtime by ConTeXt MkIV (LuaTeX), provided you have Inkscape installed as below.
Supported vector graphics formats of MkII/MKIV are [[MetaPost]] (and [[MetaFun - MetaPost in ConTeXt|MetaFun]]).
There is a workaround, though, using Inkscape to convert SVG to PDF. Inkscape must be installed and callable (i.e. in your PATH):
As a consequence, if you use an old version of ConTeXt and you have Inkscape 1.0 or newer installed, the conversion from SVG to PDF fails.
Newer versions of ConTeXt (since the second half of May 7th, 2020) will detect Inkscape's version and manage to convert SVG to PDF anyway.
But it's a temporary workaround, until version 1.0 of Inkscape gets widespread, because version detection has a performance cost.
== LMTX and SVG ==
LMTX has a direct support for SVG. It uses MetaPost (MetaFun) to process SVGdirectly; a third-party tool, so such as Inkscape, is no longer needed. Using MetaPost to process SVG opens many opportunities. It's a work in progress and not every SVG feature is supported. If you don't need an external tool like Inkscapeencounter issues, send a question to the mailing list.
==General information on SVG:==
===Community===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100212202713/http://wiki.svg.org/Main_Page SVG Wiki]* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100208221439/http://www.svg.org/ SVG.org community] Note: The original links no longer work so the above are from the Wayback Machine. It may be better to remove this section completely.
===Libraries and Tools===