[OSM-talk] SVG to PNG without burning lots of memory

[Raphaël Jacquot]

Simon Hewison wrote:
> Quick question to the list.
> 
> I've been doing some rather nice maps with osmarender, and have the need
> to convert to a PNG. The maps are of a rather large area (about 250 sq
> km), and the SVG comes to 7 megabytes of typical XML bloat.
> 
> Surely there must be a simple way of converting a 7MB input file to a
> 1024x768 bitmap png without running out of memory on a 512MB machine?
> 
> I've tried Inkscape, which is known to be REALLY memory hungry, it
> crashes out with failure to allocate memory.
> 
> I've tried Gimp, which just hangs.
> 
> Even Firefox just crawls on this input.
> 
> Has anyone got any suggestions on an efficient SVG to PNG conversion?
> 
tried rsvg-convert ?