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<h1 class="refname">Imagick::__toString</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(No version information available, might only be in Git)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">Imagick::__toString</span> — <span class="dc-title">Returns the image as a string</span></p>
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<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>Imagick::__toString</strong></span>
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Returns the current image as string. This will only return a single image; it should not be used for Imagick objects that contain multiple images e.g. an animated GIF or PDF with multiple pages.
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<p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p>
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Returns the string content on success or an empty string on failure.
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<li class="member"><span class="methodname"><a href="imagick.getimageblob.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">Imagick::getImageBlob()</a> - Returns the image sequence as a blob</span></li>
<li class="member"><span class="methodname"><a href="imagick.getimagesblob.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">Imagick::getImagesBlob()</a> - Returns all image sequences as a blob</span></li>
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