linebender/resvg

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4034 stars · 337 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

resvg is a fast, portable SVG rendering library written entirely in safe Rust, usable as a Rust library, C library, or CLI application for converting static SVG files to PNG. It aims for full SVG 1.1 spec coverage with a ~1600-test regression suite and separates SVG parsing (usvg) from rendering.

Use cases

• convert svg files to png
• render svg images server-side
• embed svg rendering in a rust application
• render svg thumbnails in a batch pipeline
• render svg in webassembly
• validate svg rendering correctness against a test suite
• build a custom svg renderer on top of a parsed svg tree

When to choose

• you need correct, spec-compliant rendering of static SVG without a browser
• memory safety matters - it's pure Rust with almost no unsafe code
• you need a small, dependency-free portable binary including WASM support
• you want to preprocess/simplify SVG (usvg) and render it with your own 2D engine

When to avoid

• you need animated or scriptable (dynamic) SVG support
• you need a full browser-grade SVG engine with CSS interactions
• you need SVG editing or authoring rather than rendering

Facets

library · maturity stable

image-processing graphics parser cli graphics image-processing web-development developer-tools cross-platform rust cli wasm svg svg-to-png rasterization usvg memory-safe no-unsafe

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