How can I convert all .svg files in a directory to .pdf on Linux in the commandline

Question

When I have a directory full of .svg files, e.g. from Inkscape, how is it possible to convert them to .pdf files?

Similar to this approach for a single file, but as a batch command for a whole directory.

Possible duplicate of [How do I convert an SVG to a PDF on Linux](https://superuser.com/questions/381125/how-do-i-convert-an-svg-to-a-pdf-on-linux) — n8te, Jan 10 '19 at 09:21

score 18 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 08 '23 at 09:16

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In this post, the procedure is shown for a single file.

The relevant command is:

rsvg-convert -f pdf -o t.pdf t.svg

For a whole directory, a simple bash script does the job:

for i in *.svg;do rsvg-convert -f pdf -o ${i%.*}.pdf $i;done

This assumes that you have rsvg-convert installed, if not you can get it by typing:

sudo apt-get install librsvg2-bin

edited Jun 08 '23 at 09:16

Benjamin Loison

answered Jan 10 '19 at 09:23

user36028

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How do you convert the whole directory's svg files into a single pdf file ? – DevonDahon Apr 09 '20 at 21:54
The simple approach is to merge all the generated pdfs. See: https://askubuntu.com/questions/886934/merge-all-pdf-files-from-one-folder Command: pdftk *.pdf output mergedfiles.pdf – user36028 Apr 09 '20 at 22:25

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