Re: [Gimp-user] SVG to PNG using a script

[Tres Finocchiaro <tres finocchiaro gmail com>]

Apologies, typo:
Error: eval: unbound variable: file-svg

Should have been:
Error: eval: unbound variable: *svg-to-raster *



- Tres Finocchiaro gmail com


On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 3:47 PM Tres Finocchiaro <tres finocchiaro gmail com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking into Gimp as a viable scripting solution for a project however
> most of the scripting references I'm finding are either sparse or dated.
>
> I was wonder if there was a way to utilize Gimp's scripting system to
> convert an SVG to a PNG?
>
> The best resource I've found is here however, attempts to run this on my
> machine are failing using GIMP 2.1.0.
>
>
> http://www.jasonhardin.com/programming/2012/08/23/Gimp-svg-to-png-script/#disqus_thread
>
> The script I'm running:
> gimp -i --batch='(svg-to-raster "src.svg" "dst.png" 72 0 0)' --batch='(gimp-quit
> 0)'
>
> Unfortunately it throws the following error:
> batch command experienced an execution error:
> Error: eval: unbound variable: file-svg
>
> I'm using MacOS to write the script, but the target platform is Windows.
>
> I understand there are many other tools for performing this conversion
> (and I'm leveraging these tools in other parts of code) but I was hoping to
> write this as a fallback for this particular system.
>
> Best regards,
>
> -Tres
>
> - Tres Finocchiaro gmail com