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Cool!",{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},"7806507","jayyvis","Nice utility to have !!!",{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"7805620","SlAZ3","very cool!",[72,83,94],{"value":73,"source":53,"evidence":74},"Name is unfortunate and could be misread",[75,79],{"id":76,"by":77,"text":78},"7805850","mahmoudhossam","fa2png is an unfortunate name for a project, really.",{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},"7809268","billpg","If I had to guess, maybe it looks a bit like the word \"fapping\"?",{"value":84,"source":53,"evidence":85},"Would prefer SVG output",[86,90],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"7806220","antidaily","Make an SVG option, please.",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"7806393","drdaeman","This. From an perfectionist perspective - a font is a font, those were made for text. They're used for icons just because it's widely supported option that allows arbitrary…",{"value":95,"source":53,"evidence":96},"Resizing PNGs gives poor results",[97],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"7809375","mkesper","Resizing PNGs? 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