An SVG is a set of instructions. A JPG is the finished picture, and plenty of places only take
the picture.
Documents and mail clients accept it
Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, older design tools and most upload forms either refuse an SVG
or show it as an empty box. A JPG pastes in and prints exactly as it looks, with no fonts
to install and no script warnings from the host application.
Artwork that embeds a picture gets lighter
A logo that carries a photo, a paper texture or a soft gradient turns into a heavy SVG once
the raster part is inside it. Rendered to JPG at the size you need, the same artwork is
often a small fraction of the weight, which matters on a page or in an attachment.
One size, decided by you
The SVG itself has no pixels; this step gives it some. Choose the width the picture will be
used at — 1600 px for a slide, 1200 px for a page, more for print — and the JPG comes out at
exactly that size with the aspect ratio kept.
What the conversion changes
The vector becomes a grid of pixels at a fixed size, and empty areas get painted over.
Transparency becomes white
JPG has no alpha channel, so every empty part of the artwork is filled with a colour.
White is preselected because it matches paper, slides and the background of most documents;
black is there for a dark layout. If the logo has to sit on an unknown background, keep it
as an SVG to PNG conversion, which keeps the transparency.
The resolution is fixed from here on
A JPG cannot be enlarged again without turning soft: the detail at 1600 px is all there
will ever be. Enlarging a JPG for a poster or a retina screen looks exactly as bad as it
sounds, so render at the largest size you expect to need rather than the size on screen
today.
Text is rendered with local fonts
Any text in the artwork is drawn with the fonts available when the image is rendered, so an
unusual typeface is replaced by a similar one. Convert text to outlines in your editor
before uploading — most have a "convert to outlines" or "flatten text" command — and the
shapes come out exactly as drawn.
The encoding is high quality, and final
The JPG is written at a high quality setting, so the result holds up on screen and in
print without visible blocking. There is no quality dial on this page for that reason. Do
keep the SVG: it is the master, and every future export should come from it rather than
from this JPG.
How to convert SVG to JPG
Three steps, no account and nothing to install.
Add the SVG
Drag it onto the box, click to browse, or paste it with Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on a Mac). One file
per run, up to 25 MB. A plain drawing file works best: linked images and outside fonts are
not fetched.
Type the width you need
Leave the field empty to keep the size the artwork was drawn at, or type a pixel width —
1600 for a slide, 2400 for a 20 cm logo at 300 dpi. The height follows the aspect ratio.
The output can be up to 8000 px on its longest side.
Check the background and download
White is already selected; switch to black if the picture will sit on a dark page. The
preview shows exactly what will be saved, with the pixel size next to it. One click
downloads the .jpg.
Three tips before you convert
The one decision that cannot be undone later is the pixel size.
Work out the print size first
Paper is measured in dots per inch: a logo 10 cm wide printed at 300 dpi needs about
1200 px, and the same artwork across an A4 page at 300 dpi about 3500 px. For a screen,
1–2 px per CSS pixel is plenty, so 1600 px covers a full-width banner on most displays.
Use JPG only when the artwork is photo-like
Flat logos, line art and hard-edged illustrations look sharper and lighter as PNG, because
JPG adds a faint fuzz around every boundary. JPG is the right choice when the SVG contains
a photograph, a texture or a wide gradient, where it compresses far better than PNG. The
SVG to PNG converter is one click away for the other case.
Make one export per destination
Rather than scaling the JPG, convert again from the SVG at the size the next place needs:
one file for the website, one for the printer. If you need a modern, lighter raster for the
web, converting the image to WebP afterwards keeps the same
pixels in a smaller file.
Frequently asked questions
Is this converter free?
Yes. Converting is free, there is no account, no trial, no credit card and no watermark on the JPG, and you can convert as many files as you need. A short rate limit keeps the server responsive for everyone.
Can I make the JPG bigger later?
No — the pixels you choose are the pixels you get. Enlarging a JPG afterwards adds softness, not detail, because there is nothing between the existing pixels to recover. Pick the largest width you expect to need here, up to 8000 px, and keep the SVG so you can render another size from it whenever it is needed.
What happens to a transparent background?
It is filled with the background colour, white by default, because JPG cannot store transparency. Choose black when the picture goes on a dark page. If the artwork must keep its transparent areas, convert to PNG instead — that route stores them exactly, and PNG is also the better format for flat logos and line art.
How large may my SVG be?
Up to 25 MB per file, and the rendered image can be up to 8000 px on its longest side, within a 40 megapixel budget. The JPEG compression itself happens in a single pass at a high quality, so there is no quality setting to tweak and no second round of loss.
What happens to my files?
Files are processed on our server and not stored. The SVG is rendered as it arrives and only the resulting JPG is sent back to your browser.