How to Export Inkscape SVG Files to PNG using the Command Line

It's possible to export the contents of an Inkscape SVG file using command line arguments¹. For this, we'd need to do something like this:

"C:\Program Files\Inkscape\bin\inkscape.exe" --export-area-page --export-type="png" my-svg-file.svg

This will automatically create and overwrite without asking a my-svg-file.png. The output filename can be specified with the --export-filename argument.

We can even use a loop to quickly export all SVG files in the current directory:

for %%f in (.\*.svg) do (
    "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\bin\inkscape.exe" --export-area-page --export-type="png" %%f
)

Check Inkscape's wiki for more options.

References

1. https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Using_the_Command_Line (accessed 2024-06-04) ↩︎