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

[Tres Finocchiaro <tres finocchiaro gmail com>]

Hmm... I'm not sure why the scripting system is continuously dismissed as a
viable solution.  Is your answer that it's not viable.  Requoting:

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.


- Tres Finocchiaro gmail com


On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 3:54 PM Guy Stalnaker <jimmyg521 gmail com> wrote:

> Tres,
>
> Several perhaps better options are tools intended for command line use:
>
> https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php
>
> Or, for considerably more sophisticated image work (with correspondingly
> more detailed and opaque documentation) G'MIC (which also has a builtin
> tool for use inside GIMP usually packaged with GIMP):
>
> https://gmic.eu/download.shtml
>
> Both of these tools can be scripted.
>
> Regards.
>
> Guy Stalnaker
> jimmyg521 gmail com
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 2:47 PM Tres Finocchiaro via gimp-user-list <
> gimp-user-list gnome org> 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
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