Convert TikZ pictures to PNG files (actually any raster format)

tikz2png script allows to easily convert TikZ pictures into any raster format.

Requirements:

• Python 3;
• TeX installation provides pdflatex and tikz (in Debian packages texlive-latex-base and texlive-latex-extra installs these);
• ImageMagick.

Example

Content of example.tex:

% taken from https://pgf-tikz.github.io/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf, page 43
\begin{tikzpicture}[even odd rule,rounded corners=2pt,x=10pt,y=10pt]
\filldraw[fill=yellow!80!black]     (0,0)   rectangle(1,1)
         [xshift=5pt,yshift=5pt]    (0,0)   rectangle(1,1)
         [rotate=30]                (-1,-1) rectangle(2,2);
\end{tikzpicture}

Default conversion:

$ tikz2png -i example.tex -o example1.png

Force white background:

$ tikz2png -i example.tex --background=white -o example2.png

No border:

$ tikz2png -i example.tex --border=0 -o example3.png

No border and background color:

$ tikz2png -i example.tex --border=0 --background=blue -o example4.png

./tikz2png --quality 100 -i example.tex -o example5.png

Installation

Simply copy/symlink tikz2png to any directory in your $PATH.