SVG to PNG

Why convert SVG to PNG

SVG stores a drawing as shapes and lines rather than pixels, which is why logos, icons and diagrams are often made as SVG: they stay sharp at any size. But many places only take ordinary images. Social networks, office documents, email signatures, app stores and most upload forms want a PNG or a JPG. PNG is the natural choice for a logo or icon, because it keeps edges crisp and the background transparent.

How to convert

1. Choose up to 30 SVG files, each up to 10 MB. You can also drop them on the box.
2. Pick a size (below).
3. Press Convert to PNG, then download each PNG, or all of them together as a ZIP.

Choosing the size

Because an SVG is redrawn rather than stretched, every size comes out sharp. “Its own size” uses the width and height written in the SVG; many icons are only 24 or 48 pixels, so 2×, the default, suits most screens, and 4× suits print or zooming in. A fixed width, such as 1024 pixels, keeps the shape and sets the height to match. An SVG that gives no size at all is taken as 300 × 150 pixels, the size browsers give it, and the result says so.

How the SVG is drawn

Your browser draws the SVG the same way it shows one on a web page, but as a plain image: any scripts inside it don’t run, and it can’t load anything from the internet. So fonts and pictures the SVG links to on other sites aren’t drawn; pictures stored inside the file are. Text in a font your device doesn’t have is drawn in a similar one. For a logo, the safest SVG has its text turned into outlines, which most design apps can do.

What else to know

• Transparency is kept: anywhere the SVG draws nothing stays see-through.
• Animated SVGs are drawn as a still picture.
• Names: logo.svg becomes logo.png. A file that isn’t a valid SVG gets its own message, and the rest still convert. For a JPG instead, use SVG to JPG.