SVG to TIFF Converter

What happens when you convert SVG to TIFF

• The image is decoded and written as an uncompressed RGBA TIFF.
• 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 TIFF cannot be scaled up cleanly afterwards.

How to convert SVG to TIFF 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 TIFF". Images convert in a second or two each.
4. Save each TIFF with its download button. Close the tab and every trace of the files is gone from memory.

Why convert SVG to TIFF?

SVG files usually come from logos, icons, charts and illustrations on the web. People convert them to TIFF because TIFF is the format printers, scanners and archives trust for lossless images.

In short, SVG is good at what it was made for, and TIFF is the more practical choice when the file has to open, upload or print somewhere else. SVG renders natively in every browser, while Safari shows TIFF; Chrome, Edge and Firefox download it instead of displaying it.

How to convert SVG to TIFF 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 TIFF is saved to your Downloads folder. Paint can also re-save an image as TIFF 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 TIFF 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 TIFF 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 TIFF is saved to the Download folder, where any file manager can find it.

Best settings for SVG to TIFF

The TIFF is written uncompressed with an alpha channel, four bytes per pixel, which every TIFF reader can open. A 12 megapixel image is about 48 MB. That is normal for print and archive work, where no loss is the point.

SVG vs TIFF: the differences

About SVG and TIFF 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 TIFF file?

TIFF is the format printers and archives trust because it can store uncompressed or losslessly compressed pixels, CMYK colour and several pages in one file. It is also why a single scan can run to 100 MB.

SVG to TIFF 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 TIFF is always the right way up.
• The file is bigger than expected. An SVG is a short list of drawing instructions, while the TIFF stores every pixel, so the output is normally larger and grows with the width you choose.

Convert SVG to TIFF from the command line

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

magick input.svg output.tiff

To convert every SVG in a folder at once, use magick mogrify -format tiff *.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.