Convert SVG to PNG
Convert SVG images to PNG free, in your browser.
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An SVG is a set of instructions for drawing a picture, not a picture. That is why it stays razor sharp at any size, and also why so many things refuse it: an SVG cannot be pasted into most documents, uploaded to most forms, used as an app icon, or opened by a lot of image software.
Converting to PNG turns the instructions into actual pixels, at a size you choose. This is the important part and the part most converters get wrong by not mentioning it: an SVG has no natural size, so the conversion has to pick one. Set a width in the Resize tab before you convert if the result needs to be large, because enlarging the PNG afterwards will blur it and re-exporting from the SVG will not.
PNG rather than JPG because SVGs are logos, icons and diagrams almost without exception. They are flat colour with hard edges, frequently on a transparent background, and PNG keeps both exactly. JPG would soften every edge and fill the transparency with white, which for a logo is the whole problem.
How to convert SVG to PNG
- Drop your SVG files onto the box above, or paste them with Ctrl+V.
- Save each file from its tile, or take them all at once.
What changes
Animation is lost
A SVG can hold many frames and a PNG holds one, so you get the first frame as a still image.
SVG and PNG side by side
| SVG | PNG | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it came from | 2001, as a W3C standard | 1996, designed as a free replacement for GIF |
| Throws detail away | No, every pixel is kept | No, every pixel is kept |
| Transparency | Yes | Yes |
| Where it opens | Every browser. Not an option where a real pixel image is required. | Everywhere, without exception, since the late nineties |
| Best at | Logos, icons and diagrams that must stay sharp at any size | Screenshots, logos, diagrams and anything with text or hard edges in it |
More on choosing between JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF.
Questions about SVG to PNG
What size will the PNG be?
Whatever you ask for. An SVG describes shapes rather than pixels, so it has no resolution of its own and the conversion has to choose one; left alone it uses the dimensions written into the file, which are often small. If the PNG needs to be 1024 pixels wide for an app icon or a print, set that width before converting. Doing it in that order draws the shapes at full size; doing it afterwards enlarges a small bitmap and it will look soft.
Does the transparent background survive?
Yes. Most SVG logos have no background at all, and PNG stores transparency with 256 levels, so the curves come out with genuinely smooth edges rather than a fringe. This is the main reason to choose PNG over JPG here. If you need the logo on a solid colour instead, convert to JPG and set the fill colour in the panel to match wherever it is going.
Why can nothing open my SVG?
Because it is not an image file in the way the rest of them are. An SVG is a text document full of drawing instructions, which browsers understand because they were built to render such things, and which most other software was not. Word, PowerPoint, upload forms, photo tools and app stores generally want a grid of pixels. Converting gives them one; keep the SVG as the master, since it is the only copy that can be redrawn at any size.
Will fonts and effects come out right?
They come out as your browser draws them, which is usually correct and occasionally not. An SVG that refers to a font by name needs that font present to render properly, and if it is missing the browser substitutes another and the text shifts. The safe fix is to convert text to outlines in whatever drew the SVG before exporting it. Filters and blend modes render as the browser renders them, which is the same thing a visitor to a web page would see.