Backends
librsvg uses two other libraries to perform tasks from reading the file to rendering to the screen: * libxml2, libxml is used to Parsing, parse the XML representation of an SVG file into a form that can be accessed quickly by the library. * cairo (graphics), cairo is used to render the information obtained by libxml to a Memory pool, block of Random-access memory, memory. Since v2.41.0 many parts have been rewritten in Rust (programming language), Rust.Adoption
librsvg is developed for the GNOME desktop environment and as such is used by GNOME Files but is also intended to be used in other software applications. As a notable example, wikis hosted by Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia use librsvg to render SVG images. It was once picked for these web applications because it was decidedly "fast but not very accurate", according to MediaWiki. Upon switching to the cairo (graphics), cairo vector rendering engine in 2005, librsvg became more accurate and more visually pleasing. Since 2012 an independent developer published Win32 console ports , version 2.40.20. The manual page is also available online.Version history
Usage
On Linux with the librsvg2-bin package installed, an Scalable Vector Graphics, SVG file can be converted to Portable Network Graphics, PNG as follows:References
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