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bmp to svg ?
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It's like saying "if you change an extension of a *.gif to *.jpeg then it won't contain the frames that the animated gif originally had". That's stupid dumb logic, because all that you are changing when you rename a file extension is the extension on the end of the filename - This extension is simply a pointer as to what Windows, or whatever OS you use, should open the file with and what it should do. Not how a file is compressed or encoded/decoded by a program.
Say if you have two files that contain graphics: One is a *.bmp, the other is a *.psd - Now, you made it so that Windows recognizes that you've installed Photoshop and that you wish to open psd files with Photoshop, not MS Paint, so whatever future file you create has a *.psd extension will be opened with Photoshop from then on.
If you TRULY want to change *.bmp files to *.svg then you need to find a converter program that recodes the original file from *.bmp raw image data into a different compressed image format that is *.svg.
That "trick" with using another format and renaming it to bmp only works with file formats which are supported by the CS2D (BlitzMax) image loader (bmp, jpg, png). Of course the renaming doesn't change the file contents or the actual file format. It just allows CS2D to find the file. It wouldn't find ak47.png for example so it must be renamed to ak47.bmp even if you're using the png format.
In other words: It won't work.

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Admin/mod comment

Your best and only bet is to convert to a png or bmp.




