How to convert a SVG to a PNG with ImageMagick?

Question

I have a SVG file that has a defined size of 16x16. When I use ImageMagick\'s convert program to convert it into a PNG, then I get a 16x16 pixel PNG which is way too small:<

Answer 1

On Linux with Inkscape 1.0 to convert from svg to png need to use

inkscape -w 1024 -h 1024 input.svg --export-file output.png

not

inkscape -w 1024 -h 1024 input.svg --export-filename output.png

Answer 2

In order to rescale the image, the option -density should be used. As far as I know the standard density is 72 and maps the size 1:1. If you want the output png to be twice as big as the original svg, set the density to 72*2=144:

convert -density 144 source.svg target.png

Answer 3

One thing that just bit me was setting the -density AFTER the input file name. That didn't work. Moving it to the first option in convert (before anything else) made it work (for me, YMMV, etc).

Answer 4

Try svgexport:

svgexport input.svg output.png 64x
svgexport input.svg output.png 1024:1024

svgexport is a simple cross-platform command line tool that I have made for exporting svg files to jpg and png, see here for more options. To install svgexport install npm, then run:

npm install svgexport -g

Edit: If you find an issue with the library, please submit it on GitHub, thanks!

Answer 5

For simple SVG to PNG conversion I found cairosvg (https://cairosvg.org/) performs better than ImageMagick. Steps for install and running on all SVG files in your directory.

pip3 install cairosvg

Open a python shell in the directory which contains your .svg files and run:

import os
import cairosvg

for file in os.listdir('.'):
    name = file.split('.svg')[0]
    cairosvg.svg2png(url=name+'.svg',write_to=name+'.png') 

This will also ensure you don't overwrite your original .svg files, but will keep the same name. You can then move all your .png files to another directory with:

$ mv *.png [new directory]

Answer 6

why don't you give a try to inkscape command line, this is my bat file to convert all svg in this dir to png:

FOR %%x IN (*.svg) DO C:\Ink\App\Inkscape\inkscape.exe %%x -z --export-dpi=500 --export-area-drawing --export-png="%%~nx.png"