SVG to BMP Converter

What happens when you convert SVG to BMP

• The image is decoded and written as a 24-bit uncompressed bitmap.
• SVG is a vector format, so it is rendered to pixels at the width you choose, 1024 pixels by default. Pick the largest size you will need, because the BMP cannot be scaled up cleanly afterwards.

How to convert SVG to BMP online

1. Press "Choose SVG files" and select one or more files, or drag them onto the box. You can add files of any size your device can hold in memory.
2. Adjust the settings if you need to. The output is lossless, so there is no quality setting to worry about.
3. Press "Convert to BMP". Images convert in a second or two each.
4. Save each BMP with its download button. Close the tab and every trace of the files is gone from memory.

Why convert SVG to BMP?

SVG files usually come from logos, icons, charts and illustrations on the web. People convert them to BMP because BMP is read by almost every Windows program, embedded display and old piece of software.

In short, SVG is good at what it was made for, and BMP is the more practical choice when the file has to open, upload or print somewhere else. SVG renders natively in every browser, while BMP opens in browsers and every Windows image tool.

How to convert SVG to BMP on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android

On Windows

Open this page in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, drag your SVG files in from File Explorer, and press Convert. Each BMP is saved to your Downloads folder. Paint can also re-save an image as BMP with Save as, provided Windows can open the SVG in the first place.

On a Mac

Safari, Chrome and Firefox all work. Drag the SVG files from Finder onto the drop zone and the BMP files land in Downloads.

On iPhone and iPad

Open the page in Safari and tap Choose SVG files. You can pick from Photos or from the Files app. The converted BMP appears in Files, in the Downloads folder; to put it in your photo library, open it there, tap Share and choose Save Image.

On Android

Open the page in Chrome, tap Choose SVG files and pick them from Files or your gallery. The BMP is saved to the Download folder, where any file manager can find it.

Best settings for SVG to BMP

A 24-bit BMP stores every pixel uncompressed, three bytes each, so size is simply width times height times three: a 12 megapixel photo becomes about 36 MB. Use the Maximum width setting if the program that needs the BMP does not need full resolution.

SVG vs BMP: the differences

About SVG and BMP files

What is an SVG file?

SVG describes shapes as text instructions, so it stays sharp at any size and a simple logo can be under 5 KB. Turning it into pixels fixes it at one resolution, so choose the output size before converting.

What is a BMP file?

BMP usually stores pixels with no compression at all, so a 12 megapixel photo is about 36 MB. That size is the price of being readable by almost any program ever written for Windows.

SVG to BMP not working? Common problems

• Colours look slightly different. Browsers convert images to the standard sRGB colour space when they decode them, so wide-gamut and CMYK images can shift a little.
• A phone photo comes out upright even though it looked sideways elsewhere. That is correct: the rotation stored in the photo is applied during conversion, so the BMP is always the right way up.
• The file is bigger than expected. An SVG is a short list of drawing instructions, while the BMP stores every pixel, so the output is normally larger and grows with the width you choose.

Convert SVG to BMP from the command line

If you work in a terminal, ImageMagick converts SVG to BMP in one line:

magick input.svg output.bmp

To convert every SVG in a folder at once, use magick mogrify -format bmp *.svg. For best results with SVG, set the size with -density or -resize. The converter on this page does the same job without installing anything.