Swing & Batik: Create an ImageIcon from an SVG file?

Question

Simply put, I\'m looking for a way to make an ImageIcon from an SVG file using the batik library. I don\'t want to have to raster the SVG to disk first, I just want to be able

Answer 1

I have just followed Devon's approach with Batik-1.7

However, in order to make it work I had to make the following additions to the hints object:

MyTranscoder transcoder =new MyTranscoder()

DOMImplementation impl = SVGDOMImplementation.getDOMImplementation();
TranscodingHints hints = new TranscodingHints();
hints.put(ImageTranscoder.KEY_WIDTH, width); // e.g. width=new Float(300)
hints.put(ImageTranscoder.KEY_HEIGHT,height);// e.g. height=new Float(75)
hints.put(ImageTranscoder.KEY_DOM_IMPLEMENTATION, impl.getDOMImplementation());
hints.put(ImageTranscoder.KEY_DOCUMENT_ELEMENT_NAMESPACE_URI,SVGConstants.SVG_NAMESPACE_URI);
hints.put(ImageTranscoder.KEY_DOCUMENT_ELEMENT_NAMESPACE_URI,SVGConstants.SVG_NAMESPACE_URI);
hints.put(ImageTranscoder.KEY_DOCUMENT_ELEMENT, SVGConstants.SVG_SVG_TAG);
hints.put(ImageTranscoder.KEY_XML_PARSER_VALIDATING, false);

transcoder.setTranscodingHints(hints);
TranscoderInput ti=new TranscoderInput(uri)
transcoder.transcode(ti, null);
BufferedImage image = transcoder.getImage();

Seems like something has been updated in batik's XMLAbstractTranscoder( http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/batik/tags/batik-1_7/sources/org/apache/batik/transcoder/XMLAbstractTranscoder.java) with version 1.7.