automated fast svg to raster-image (e.g. png) conv

Question

I'm looking for a tool to convert an svg to a raster-image (png for instance) from a shell script (bash).

Currently I use inkscape --export-png=image.png --export-area-drawing image.svg which works well, but is terribly slow.

Searching the Web and SO only gets me libraries to do this inside some programming language (php, js, C#, ...). I could write myself a small program to do this, but I would prefer an existing tool (other than inkscape as it is quite slow).

Answer 1

I you want to batch export whole or parts of SVG files to PNG in different sizes take a look at my tool inkmake.

Answer 2

The ImageMagick library also has command-line tools that can do this. While it certainly supports SVG I'm not sure if it will give the same quality of results as InkScape unless your svg's are fairly simple..

Answer 3

It is possible using librsvg2

All the details are here