How to convert SVG to TIFF without uploading it
Every "free" online SVG converter you've used uploads your logos to a company server, converts them there, and — in several documented cases — keeps a copy or a live download link for hours. For client work, brand assets and anything you wouldn't post publicly, that's an unnecessary risk. The safer approach is to convert the file where it already is: on your own device.
This tool does exactly that. When you drop an SVG here, your browser:
- Sanitizes the SVG first — scripts, embedded HTML, SMIL animation elements and event-handler attributes are stripped, and any file that references an external resource is refused outright, so nothing is fetched while converting.
- Rasterizes it at your DPI — the SVG is rendered at DPI ÷ 72 relative to its own size (300 DPI renders a 400×200 logo at 1667×833 px), with transparency flattened onto the background colour you chose. Animated SVGs render as their first frame only, and fonts are not embedded — text uses your browser's system fonts.
- Re-encodes the pixels as a TIFF with a pure-JavaScript TIFF encoder — little-endian header, one IFD per image, LZW, PackBits or no compression, and the DPI you chose written as XResolution and YResolution tags. Your original file is never modified.
What makes this converter different
The converters that top the results for this search mostly upload your files to a server (Wondershare UniConverter and AnyConv convert server-side, and Zamzar caps free conversions at 2 MB), and the client-side ones we found are thin — mapree.dev is a dedicated client-side SVG-to-TIFF page with batch support, but offers no stated DPI choice, no compression choice and no multi-page combine, and picflow's client-side batch tool is thinner still. This page is the only dedicated SVG-to-TIFF page we found that combines a batch of 20 files with a ZIP download, a genuine DPI choice that sets both the render size and the TIFF tag, a compression choice (LZW by default, PackBits or uncompressed), a multi-page TIFF combine mode, SVG-specific safety (scripts stripped, external resources refused), and a live network-request counter so you can verify the privacy claim yourself. It runs entirely in your browser — there is no server to upload to, no daily limits, no account and no watermark.
When is TIFF the right choice for an SVG?
When the destination demands it: print shops and scanning bureaus that ask for TIFF, archives that store images losslessly, and layout software (InDesign, QuarkXPress and their peers) that places TIFFs at a stated DPI. TIFF is also the format for multi-page sets — one file, one page per image. For anything else — web, sharing, storage — keep the SVG, or use SVG to PNG instead and keep the smaller file.
Files are checked by their contents, not their name: an SVG saved as .txt still converts, because the <svg> root element is what matters, while a PNG renamed to .svg is refused with a pointer to the matching converter. A corrupt or truncated SVG is refused at rasterize time, with a per-file error explaining what happened.
Honest limitations
Rasterized, not vector
The TIFF holds pixels, not the vector drawing. There is no text layer and no OCR — text in the TIFF is not searchable or selectable, and the image cannot be scaled up cleanly the way the SVG could. Metadata is dropped on re-encode.
Fonts are not embedded
Text renders with your browser's system fonts, because the SVG is rasterized where it runs. A logo that relies on an unusual font may look different from the original — check the preview before downloading.
Animated SVG renders as its first frame
SMIL animation is stripped before rasterizing, so an animated SVG becomes a still image of its opening frame. If you need the animation, keep the SVG or convert it with our SVG to GIF converter.
Transparency is flattened
Output is 8-bit RGB — no 16-bit, no CMYK, no alpha channel. Any see-through pixels are composited onto the background colour you pick, so choose one that matches where the image will sit.
TIFFs are much larger than SVGs
An SVG is a few kilobytes of drawing instructions; a 1667×833 TIFF is about 4 MB uncompressed, less with LZW. Every file shows its size multiple honestly, and the batch bar shows the total before you download anything.
Multi-page TIFFs are not universal
Multi-page TIFFs open in most viewers, but some old software shows only the first page. If the destination is old or unknown, send one TIFF per file instead.