Protocol error: Unable to capture screenshot

[beeryt]

1. Install svgexport

PS C:\> npm i svgexport -g

added 48 packages, and audited 49 packages in 11s
found 0 vulnerabilities

2. Run with error (svg from Fontawesome)

PS C:\> svgexport .\play-solid.svg .\play-solid.png 64x
Error: Protocol error (Page.captureScreenshot): Unable to capture screenshot

Versions

Windows 10.0.18363

npm@7.6.0
node@15.11.0
svgexport@0.4.1

[SandroMiccoli]

Had the same error. Installed using `npm install svgexport -g'.

First a just ran the command without any parameters, and it worked fine.

When trying to export a higher resolution png, I got the error:

$ svgexport.cmd hicetnunc-v0.1.svg hicetnunc-v0.1-25000pixels.png 25000:25000
Error: Protocol error (Page.captureScreenshot): Unable to capture screenshot

[shakiba]

It seems it is a Puppeteer issue because of file size.

[beeryt]

That appears to be correct. I realize now that I used 64x instead of 64:64.

[SandroMiccoli]

It seems it is a Puppeteer issue because of file size.

Is there a way to solve it? Or at least find a way around this issue?

I would like to be able to export high dimensional/quality images.

[shakiba]

Yeah, makes sense. The issue is not specific to svgexport, so if you search for the error on the web you will find some suggestions, for example if you running in a docker container you may be able to fix it by adding more RAM.

Another option/hack might be to export one portion of image at a time using input size parameters, and then merge them together using another tool.

[kryztoval]

I was trying to export the Ghostcript_Tiger.svg in 20x and got this error, but looking at the issues reported here I used version 0.3.2 and it exports correctly. however version 0.4.x does output this error. My computer has 51GB of free ram (64GB installed).