[bshimmin]

I take your point in general, but I'm not sure this specific task - converting of SVGs - has ever been one that has easily been solved by some tiny amount of code: probably the way I would have done this in the past (say, ten years ago) would have been using Apache Batik's rasteriser, which is far from a lightweight solution itself.

[matthewmacleod]

It's not tiny, but in case anybody else is trying to do the same thing, I'd reach for librsvg (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/LibRsvg).