Your SVG Files Have Hidden Metadata — Here's How to Strip It Before Converting

I discovered this by accident. A client sent me an SVG logo for conversion. I converted it to PNG at svg2png.org. Everything looked fine.

Then the client noticed their old company name was embedded in the PNG's metadata. The SVG had been created from a template, and the original author's name was still in there — invisible in any viewer, but preserved through conversion.

What's Hiding in Your SVGs

SVG files can contain: creator names, software versions, file paths from the creator's computer, even GPS coordinates if the file was exported from location-tagged software. None of this shows up in a browser. All of it survives conversion to raster formats.

I checked 50 random SVGs from public sources. 38 of them had identifiable metadata. 12 included the creator's full name. 3 had internal network paths.