Hi all,
This is not important, just FYI. Batik (Java SVG package) has a new beta on their site, the first for a long time: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/
Quite often we suggest to people that they compare Inkscape's rendering to Batik, since it is considered to have the best rendering available. With the addition of the FOP library, it can also render to PDF. I wrote a tiny amount of Java code to make a command-line tool to convert SVG's to JPEG, PNG, and PDF.
I uploaded a copy of the Batik lib with that class to here: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/batikrender.7z
If you are on Windows and don't want to install Java, here is a copy with an embedded Java engine: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/batikrender-win-jre.7z
The first one is best for most people.
Just run:
svgrender <svgfile> <outfile>
The output type will be selected by the file suffix.
bob