


$ inkscape -without-gui -actions="file-new export-area-page export-filename:test.svg export-do " 2>/dev/null & ls -la test.svg Ls: cannot access 'test.svg': No such file or directory In order to create a true vector SVG file from a PNG, you’ll have to create an entirely new SVG file by tracing over your PNG. From here you can click into each individual letter of your text and edit however you’d like.

To do this just select your text and then go to path in the top menu bar and then choose object to path. Well, I've been wondering about this same thing for years (especially since touch mynewfile.svg inkscape mynewfile.svg causes InkscapeApplication::document_open: Failed to open: /path/to/mynewfile.svg ConcreteInkscapeApplication::on_open: failed to create document!) - and finally, after consulting, I found it: inkscape -without-gui -actions="file-new export-area-page export-filename:test.svg export-do "įor instance, to test under Ubuntu 18.04: $ inkscape -version To create text SVG’s in Inkscape you need to turn your text into a path.
