I've been trying to convert SVG images to PNG using C#, without having to write too much code. Can anyone recommend a library or example code for doing this?
I've been trying to convert SVG images to PNG using C#, without having to write too much code. Can anyone recommend a library or example code for doing this?
You can call the command-line version of inkscape to do this:
http://harriyott.com/2008/05/converting-svg-images-to-png-in-c.aspx
Also there is a C# SVG rendering engine, primarily designed to allow SVG files to be used on the web on codeplex that might suit your needs if that is your problem:
Original Project
http://www.codeplex.com/svg
Fork with fixes and more activity: (added 7/2013)
https://github.com/vvvv/SVG
I'm using Batik for this. Batik is a graphics library written in Java, with a command line interface. This makes that you can Batik from C#, same as the following example in Delphi:
procedure ExecNewProcess(ProgramName : String; Wait: Boolean);
var
StartInfo : TStartupInfo;
ProcInfo : TProcessInformation;
CreateOK : Boolean;
begin
FillChar(StartInfo, SizeOf(TStartupInfo), #0);
FillChar(ProcInfo, SizeOf(TProcessInformation), #0);
StartInfo.cb := SizeOf(TStartupInfo);
CreateOK := CreateProcess(nil, PChar(ProgramName), nil, nil, False,
CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP + NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS,
nil, nil, StartInfo, ProcInfo);
if CreateOK then begin
//may or may not be needed. Usually wait for child processes
if Wait then
WaitForSingleObject(ProcInfo.hProcess, INFINITE);
end else
ShowMessage('Unable to run ' + ProgramName);
CloseHandle(ProcInfo.hProcess);
CloseHandle(ProcInfo.hThread);
end;
procedure ConvertSVGtoPNG(aFilename: String);
const
ExecLine = 'c:\windows\system32\java.exe -jar C:\Apps\batik-1.7\batik-rasterizer.jar ';
begin
ExecNewProcess(ExecLine + aFilename, True);
end;