How to convert a SVG to a PNG with ImageMagick?

I haven't been able to get good results from ImageMagick in this instance, but Inkscape does a nice job of scaling an SVG on Linux and Windows:

# Inkscape v1.0+
inkscape -w 1024 -h 1024 input.svg -o output.png

# Inkscape older than v1.0
inkscape -z -w 1024 -h 1024 input.svg -e output.png

Note that you can omit one of the width/height parameters to have the other parameter scaled automatically based on the input image dimensions.

Here's the result of scaling a 16x16 SVG to a 200x200 PNG using this command:

Inkscape doesn't seem to work when svg units are not px (e.g. cm). I got a blank image. Maybe, it could be fixed by twiddling the dpi, but it was too troublesome.

Svgexport is a node.js program and so not generally useful.

Imagemagick's convert works ok with:

 convert -background none -size 1024x1024 infile.svg outfile.png

If you use -resize, the image is fuzzy and the file is much larger.

BEST

rsvg-convert -w 1024 -h 1024 infile.svg -o outfile.png

It is fastest, has the fewest dependencies, and the output is about 30% smaller than convert. Install librsvg2-bin to get it:

sudo apt install -y librsvg2-bin

There does not appear to be a man page but you can type:

rsvg-convert --help

to get some assistance. Simple is good.

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!

This is not perfect but it does the job.

convert -density 1200 -resize 200x200 source.svg target.png

Basically it increases the DPI high enough (just use an educated/safe guess) that resizing is done with adequate quality. I was trying to find a proper solution to this but after a while decided this was good enough for my current need.

Note: Use 200x200! to force the given resolution