G'day Corion,
I did, in fact, look at Inkscape only a few days ago.
This was more out of curiousity than anything else, as I don't actually need a tool to generate the SVG.
I was put off by some of the issues with Mac OS X:
none insurmountable but sufficiently annoying (for me, at any rate) that I didn't investigate further.
I wasn't aware of the command line and export facilities:
thanks for pointing those out — maybe I'll take another look.
Actually, curiousity grabbed me again. I did a little more investigating (in the middle of replying)
and found the manpage.
It would appear that the first command line from my OP:
$ convert test.svg -resize 16x16 test016.png
could be written, using Inkscape, as:
$ inkscape -z -e test016.png -w 16 -h 16 test.svg
That seems fairly painless.
It's also completely untested as I haven't installed Inkscape.
Having to "relaunch the Inkscape process often" is a concern.
No, I'm not battling anything at this point.
I'm really just at the requirements analysis stage and searching for the best tools.
My sanity, at least for now, remains intact; but thankyou for your concern. :-)
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