---
name: "rendersvg"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "resvg"
version: "0.8.0-4"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/rendersvg"
---

# rendersvg(1)

an SVG rendering application

## NAME

rendersvg - an SVG rendering application

## SYNOPSIS

**rendersvg** \[*OPTIONS*\] *in.svg* *out.png*

**rendersvg** *in.svg* *out.png*

**rendersvg** **-z** *4* *in.svg* *out.png*

**rendersvg** **--query-all** *in.svg*

## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

- **--h**, **--help**

  Prints help information

- **-V**, **--version**

  Prints version information

- **--backend** *BACKEND*

  Sets the rendering backend.

  Has no effect if built with only one backend \[default: cairo\] \[possible values: cairo, qt\]

- **-w** *LENGTH*, **--width** *LENGTH*

  Sets the width in pixels

- **-h** *LENGTH*, **--height** *LENGTH*

  Sets the height in pixels

- **-z** *FACTOR*, **--zoom** *FACTOR*

  Zooms the image by a factor

- **--dpi** *DPI*

  Sets the resolution \[default: 96\] \[possible values: 10..4000\]

- **--background** *COLOR*

  Sets the background color.

  Examples: red, #fff, #fff000

- **--font-family** *FAMILY*

  Sets the default font family \[default: 'Times New Roman'\]

- **--font-size** *SIZE*

  Sets the default font size \[default: 12\] \[possible values: 1..192\]

- **--languages** *LANG*

  Sets a comma-separated list of languages that will be used during the 'systemLanguage' attribute resolving.

  Examples: 'en-US', 'en-US, ru-RU', 'en, ru' \[default: 'en'\]

- **--query-all**

  Queries all valid SVG ids with bounding boxes

- **--export-id** *ID*

  Renders an object only with a specified ID

- **--perf**

  Prints performance stats

- **--pretend**

  Does all the steps except rendering

- **--quiet**

  Disables warnings

- **--dump-svg**=*PATH*

  Saves the preprocessed SVG to the selected file

## ARGS

- *in.svg*

  Input file

- *out.png*

  Output file

## SEE ALSO

[**usvg**(1)](/usvg/1.md)

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Andrej Shadura \<andrewsh@debian.org\> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).