Inkscape

PNG to Inkscape filetype

Asked by Bill Streifer on 2016-04-16

I've used Fireworks CS3 for many years, so I have accumulated many PNG files. Now that I no longer use Adobe Fireworks, can I convert my Fireworks PNG files into Inkscape files while retaining all of the layer and other data, so that I can further edit them using Inkscape?

Question information

Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Answered

For:: Inkscape Edit question

Assignee:: No assignee Edit question

Last query:: 2016-04-16

Last reply:: 2016-04-16

Link existing bug

Revision history for this message

Hachmann (marenhachmann) said on 2016-04-16:

Hi Bill,

so Fireworks PNG is a (proprietary ?) file format, that contains layers? I don't think that anyone has written an Inkscape extension to convert this to SVG yet.

The only info I found was this:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1232026?start=0&tstart=0
http://firetuts.com/export-svg-with-fireworks/

Here they say the format is actually APNG:
http://superuser.com/questions/50044/how-to-read-fireworks-png-multilayer-files-without-fireworks

And here's a page that says it converts APNG to SVG:
https://www.reaconverter.com/convert/apng_to_svg.html

(I didn't test any of the suggested programs, and I can't tell you if they work, or if they even contain malicious code. Use at own risk.)

Kind regards,
Maren