[OSX macOS] Convert SVG to PNG in command line

Posted: January 14, 2018

tl;dr

# qlmanage -t -o <output dir> -s <size> <SVG file>
qlmanage -t -o . -s 640 example.svg

Alias

It’s useful to add it as alias command.

# add alias to bash_profile
echo "alias svg2png='qlmanage -t -o . -s '" >> $HOME/.bash_profile

# reload
source $HOME/.bash_profile

# use command
svg2png 640 example.svg

Problems

alpha channel(transparency) is not saved in the output png by qlmanage

So white is used as a background color.