How to make SVG to PNG rendering with MiniMagick not ignore size and font options?

Question

I'm using minimagick to do some dynamic resizing of a SVG image into a PNG one.

Here is my code:

require "mini_magick"

svgString = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'\
'<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0" y="0" viewBox="0, 0, 512, 512">'\
  '<g id="Calque_1">'\
'    <g>'\
'      <path d="M256,432.5 C143.61,432.5 52.5,345.867 52.5,239 C52.5,132.133 143.61,45.5 256,45.5 C368.39,45.5 459.5,132.133 459.5,239 C459.5,345.867 368.39,432.5 256,432.5 z" fill="#FFFFFF"/>'\
'      <path d="M256,432.5 C143.61,432.5 52.5,345.867 52.5,239 C52.5,132.133 143.61,45.5 256,45.5 C368.39,45.5 459.5,132.133 459.5,239 C459.5,345.867 368.39,432.5 256,432.5 z" fill-opacity="0" stroke="#000000" stroke-width="1"/>'\
'    </g>'\
'    <text transform="matrix(1, 0, 0, 1, 179.125, 208)">'\
'      <tspan x="-28.125" y="10.5" font-size="24" fill="#000000">Is this using my font?</tspan>'\
'    </text>'\
'  </g>'\
'</svg>'

image = MiniMagick::Image.read(svgString)
image.combine_options do |b|
  b.resize "760x760"
  b.font "/Users/foo/Library/Fonts/myFont.ttf"
end
image.format("png", 1)
image.write('from-string.png')

The image gets rendered, but it's a 512x512 image (the viewport size), and the font myFont is not used in the rendering.

Any idea how I could fix this?

Mark Setchell · Answer 1 · 2015-08-08T10:51:33.457

Not sure if this will help debug your issue, but if you remove the language-specific stuff from around your SVG string and save it in a file called image.svg, you can test it out with the commandine version of ImageMagick:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0" y="0" viewBox="0, 0, 512, 512">
  <g id="Calque_1">
    <g>
      <path d="M256,432.5 C143.61,432.5 52.5,345.867 52.5,239 C52.5,132.133 143.61,45.5 256,45.5 C368.39,45.5 459.5,132.133 459.5,239 C459.5,345.867 368.39,432.5 256,432.5 z" fill="#FFFFFF"/>
      <path d="M256,432.5 C143.61,432.5 52.5,345.867 52.5,239 C52.5,132.133 143.61,45.5 256,45.5 C368.39,45.5 459.5,132.133 459.5,239 C459.5,345.867 368.39,432.5 256,432.5 z" fill-opacity="0" stroke="#000000" stroke-width="1"/>
    </g>
    <text transform="matrix(1, 0, 0, 1, 179.125, 208)">
      <tspan x="-28.125" y="10.5" font-size="24" fill="#000000">Is this using my font?</tspan>
    </text>
  </g>
</svg>

like this:

convert -resize 760x760 -font "AdobeDevanagariBI" image.svg image.png

and you get this:

which is using the font I specified (I don't have yours) and is also 760x760.

I hope that might help. My deduction is that either your ImageMagick is out of date, or MiniMagick has a bug. Sorry, I have no idea how to debug MiniMagick - can you see what it is actually doing under the covers ?Is there a debugger?

Version: ImageMagick 6.9.1-10 Q16 x86_64 2015-08-06 http://www.imagemagick.org

Thanks for your answer. This is not exactly what I want (I was able to make it work this way already), but I'm afraid my question is too *niche* to get a better answer. — Mick F, Aug 18 '15 at 08:44

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 11 '15 at 15:34

I found a way to get what I wanted with mini_magick this way (only available from version 4+):

# Write SVG in a temporary file
temp_svg = Tempfile.new('bar')
temp_svg.write(svg_string)
temp_svg.close

MiniMagick::Tool::Mogrify.new do |mogrify|
  mogrify.resize "760x760"
  mogrify.font "/Users/foo/Library/Fonts/myFont.ttf"
  mogrify.format "png"
  mogrify << temp_svg.path
end

temp_svg.unlink

# The result is in (temp_svg.path + ".png")

It's terribly ugly since I need to access the file system for both SVG and PNG. But it's the only way I could make it work.

How to make SVG to PNG rendering with MiniMagick not ignore size and font options?

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