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Send a PNG of a red square to STDOUT using node.js and convert
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converttest.js
/* converttest.js: Send a PNG of a red square to STDOUT
* ex. node converttest.js > test.png
*/
var convert = require('child_process').spawn("convert", ["svg:", "png:-"]),
svgsrc = '<svg><rect height="100" width="100" style="fill:red;"/></svg>';
convert.stdout.on('data', function (data) {
process.stdout.write(data);
});
convert.stdin.write(svgsrc);
convert.stdin.end();
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It does not work for me on Win7. Most probably because of a bug in the #spawn of Node.

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