Go module and command line utility for converting small PNG files to SVG Tiny 1.2.
- Draws rectangles for each region in the PNG image that can be covered by a rectangle.
- The remaining pixels are drawn with a rectangle for each pixel.
- This is not an efficient representation of PNG images!
- The conversion may be useful if you have a small PNG image or icons at sizes around 16x16, and wish to scale it up and print it out without artifacts.
- The utility is fast for small images, but larger images will take an unreasonable amount of time to convert, creating SVG files many megabytes in size.
- The resulting SVG images can be opened directly in a browser like Firefox or Chromium.
- Written in pure Go, with no runtime dependencies on any external library or utility.
- Handles transparent PNG images by not drawing SVG elements for the transparent regions.
- For creating SVG images that draws a rectangle for each and every pixel, use the
-pflag.
| 302x240 PNG image | 302x240 SVG image (4096 colors) |
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| 171 KB | 2.98 MB |
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The rainforest image is from Wikipedia.
| 64x64 PNG image | 64x64 SVG image (one rectangle per pixel) | 64x64 SVG image (optimized) | 64x64 SVG image (4096 colors) |
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| 2.22 KB | 231 KB | 71.2 KB | 66.7 KB |
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The Glenda bunny is from 9p.io.
- Q: Why 4096 colors?
- A: Because representing colors on the short form
#000(as opposed to#000000) makes it possible to express 4096 unique colors.
Development version:
go get -u github.com/xyproto/png2svg/cmd/png2svg
Generate an SVG image with one rectangle per pixel:
png2svg -p -o output.svg input.png
Generate an SVG image with as few rectangles as possible (optimized):
png2svg -o output.svg input.png
Generate an SVG image with as few rectangles as possible (4096 colors):
png2svg -q -o output.svg input.png
Like above, but with verbose/progress output:
png2svg -v -q -o output.svg input.png
- Version: 1.3.1
- Author: Alexander F. Rødseth <xyproto@archlinux.org>
- License: MIT