diff --git a/renderlib.py b/renderlib.py
index 57c9366..0d749f1 100644
--- a/renderlib.py
+++ b/renderlib.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ from svgtemplate import SVGTemplate
 from lxml import etree
 from urllib.request import urlopen
 from wand.image import Image
+from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
 
 # Frames per second. Increasing this renders more frames, the avconf-statements would still need modifications
 fps = 25
@@ -83,14 +84,18 @@ def ensureFilesRemoved(pattern):
     for f in glob.glob(pattern):
         os.unlink(f)
 
-def renderFrame(infile, task, outfile):
+def renderFrame(svg, task, outfile):
     width = 1920
     height = 1080
+    outfile = os.path.abspath(outfile)
     if args.imagemagick:
         # invoke imagemagick to convert the generated svg-file into a png inside the .frames-directory
-        with Image(filename=infile) as img:
-            with img.convert('png') as converted:
-                converted.save(filename=outfile)
+        with NamedTemporaryFile(dir=task.workdir, suffix='.svg') as svgfile:
+            svgfile.write(svg.svgstr.encode('utf-8'))
+            svgfile.flush()
+            with Image(filename=svgfile.name) as img:
+                with img.convert('png') as converted:
+                    converted.save(filename=outfile)
     elif args.resvg:
         # invoke inkscape to convert the generated svg-file into a png inside the .frames-directory
         cmd = 'resvg --background white --width={1} --height={2}  "{4}" "{3}" 2>&1 >/dev/null'.format(task.workdir, width, height, outfile, infile)
@@ -98,11 +103,10 @@ def renderFrame(infile, task, outfile):
         if errorReturn != '':
             print("resvg exited with error\n" + errorReturn)
             # sys.exit(42)
-
     else:
         # invoke inkscape to convert the generated svg-file into a png inside the .frames-directory
-        cmd = 'inkscape --export-background=white --export-background-opacity=0 --export-width={1} --export-height={2} --export-filename="{3}" "{4}" --pipe 2>&1 >/dev/null'.format(task.workdir, width, height, os.path.abspath(outfile), os.path.abspath(infile))
-        errorReturn = subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True, universal_newlines=True, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, cwd=task.workdir)
+        cmd = 'inkscape --export-background=white --export-background-opacity=0 --export-width={1} --export-height={2} --export-filename="{3}" --pipe 2>&1 >/dev/null'.format(task.workdir, width, height, outfile)
+        errorReturn = subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True, universal_newlines=True, input=svg.svgstr, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, cwd=task.workdir)
         if errorReturn != '':
             print("inkscape exited with error\n" + errorReturn)
             # sys.exit(42)
@@ -135,26 +139,20 @@ def cachedRenderFrame(frame, frameNr, task, cache):
         elif not skip_rendering:
             cache[frame] = frameNr
 
-        svgfile = '{0}/.frames/{1:04d}.svg'.format(task.workdir, frameNr)
-
-        with SVGTemplate(task, svgfile) as svg:
+        outfile = '{0}/.frames/{1:04d}.png'.format(task.workdir, frameNr)
+        with SVGTemplate(task) as svg:
             svg.replacetext()
             svg.transform(frame)
-            svg.write()
-
-        outfile = '{0}/.frames/{1:04d}.png'.format(task.workdir, frameNr)
-        renderFrame(svgfile, task, outfile)
+            renderFrame(svg, task, outfile)
 
         # increment frame-number
         frameNr += 1
 
 
 def rendertask_image(task):
-    svgfile = '{0}/image.svg'.format(task.workdir)
-    with SVGTemplate(task, svgfile) as svg:
+    with SVGTemplate(task) as svg:
         svg.replacetext()
-        svg.write()
-    renderFrame(svgfile, task, task.outfile)
+        renderFrame(svg, task, task.outfile)
 
 def rendertask_video(task):
     # iterate through the animation sequence frame by frame
diff --git a/svgtemplate.py b/svgtemplate.py
index 4391214..410934c 100644
--- a/svgtemplate.py
+++ b/svgtemplate.py
@@ -12,21 +12,14 @@ cssutils.ser.prefs.lineSeparator = ' '
 cssutils.log.setLevel(logging.FATAL)
 
 class SVGTemplate:
-    def __init__(self, task, outfile):
+    def __init__(self, task):
         self.task = task
-        self.outfile = outfile
 
     def __enter__(self):
         with builtins.open(os.path.join(self.task.workdir, self.task.infile), 'r') as fp:
             self.svgstr = fp.read()
         return self
 
-    def write(self):
-        # open the output-file (named ".gen.svg" in the workdir)
-        with builtins.open(self.outfile, 'w') as fp:
-            # write the generated svg-text into the output-file
-            fp.write(self.svgstr)
-
     def replacetext(self):
         for key in self.task.parameters.keys():
             self.svgstr = self.svgstr.replace(key, xmlescape(str(self.task.parameters[key])))