G'day Corion,

I did, in fact, look at Inkscape only a few days ago. This was more out of curiousity than anything else, as I don't actually need a tool to generate the SVG. I was put off by some of the issues with Mac OS X: none insurmountable but sufficiently annoying (for me, at any rate) that I didn't investigate further. I wasn't aware of the command line and export facilities: thanks for pointing those out — maybe I'll take another look.

Actually, curiousity grabbed me again. I did a little more investigating (in the middle of replying) and found the manpage. It would appear that the first command line from my OP: 

$ convert test.svg -resize 16x16 test016.png

[download]

could be written, using Inkscape, as: 

$ inkscape -z -e test016.png -w 16 -h 16 test.svg

[download]

That seems fairly painless. It's also completely untested as I haven't installed Inkscape. Having to "relaunch the Inkscape process often" is a concern.

No, I'm not battling anything at this point. I'm really just at the requirements analysis stage and searching for the best tools. My sanity, at least for now, remains intact; but thankyou for your concern. :-)

— Ken

In reply to Re^2: Image Conversion: SVG to PNG by kcott
in thread Image Conversion: SVG to PNG by kcott

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