Output is SVG source on Windows about grunt-svg2png

[deantpt]

Has anyone found a workaround for this?

[smyli323]

Not sure if you are using 'svgmin' but I found 'svgmin' was messing it up for me. If i move it after 'svg2png' in my Gruntfile.js in grunt.registerTask(), then it generates the png properly, didn't need the xml declaration either.

[jtbr]

Another workaround for you need to run svgmin before svg2png (as if you are using grunticon), you can simply disable the removal of the xml declaration in svgmin:

svgmin: {
    dist: {
        options: {
            plugins: [
                { removeXMLProcInst: false } // don't remove xml processing instructions (doing so causes svg2png to fail at least on win 7)
            ]
        },
        files: [{
            expand: true,   cwd: 'sourcedir', src: ['*.svg'], dest: 'destdir'
        }]
    }
}

Of course, ideally, svg2min could support files without the xml declaration.

[jonnystening]

Worth mentioning... the latest version of Illustrator (I'm on v19.2.0) has a new 'Export... SVG' dialog which seems to automatically strip the declaration.

grunt-svg2png still needs this declaration in order to output a rasterized SVG graphic (rather than rasterized lines of XML code).

Grrrrr.