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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- $Revision$ -->
+
+<refentry xml:id="classname.methodname" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
+ <refnamediv>
+  <refname>Imagick::__toString</refname>
+  <refpurpose>Returns the image as a string.</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+ 
+ <refsect1 role="description">
+  &reftitle.description;
+  <methodsynopsis role="oop">
+   <type>string</type><methodname>Imagick::__toString</methodname>
+   <void />
+  </methodsynopsis>
+  <para>
+   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.
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+ 
+ <refsect1 role="parameters">
+  &reftitle.parameters;
+  &no.function.parameters;
+ </refsect1>
+ 
+ <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
+  &reftitle.returnvalues;
+  <para>
+   Returns the string content on success or an empty string on failure.
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+ 
+ 
+ <refsect1 role="seealso">
+  &reftitle.seealso;
+  <simplelist>
+   <member><methodname>Imagick::getImageBlob</methodname></member>
+   <member><methodname>Imagick::getImagesBlob</methodname></member>   
+  </simplelist>
+ </refsect1>
+ 
+</refentry>
+
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