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

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Tue, 2020-04-21 at 15:47 -0400, Tres Finocchiaro via gimp-user-list
wrote:
> I was wonder if there was a way to utilize Gimp's scripting system to
> convert an SVG to a PNG?

Yes, from python, perl or scheme (script-fu).

there's also batch mode add-ons such as phatch.

You might prefer to use Inkscape for this one - it can do this in the
command-line.


> The best resource I've found is here however, attempts to run this on
> my
> machine are failing using GIMP 2.1.0.

Hoping you mean 2.10.18

> I'm using MacOS to write the script, but the target platform is
> Windows.

We are a release behind n the Mac because we don't have a Mac
maintainer right now.

> 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.

For the error you're getting try changing file-svg to file-svg-save
maybe.

slave

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