How to get a BufferedImage from a SVG?

Question

I am using Batik to handle SVG images. Is there any way to get a java.awt.image.BufferedImage from a SVG-file?

I know there are transcoders, with which I could transcode the SVG into, for example, a PNG and then load that PNG with ImageIO.read()· But I don't want to have the temporary file.

Answer 1

Using Batik, something like this:

public static BufferedImage rasterize(File svgFile) throws IOException {

    final BufferedImage[] imagePointer = new BufferedImage[1];

    // Rendering hints can't be set programatically, so
    // we override defaults with a temporary stylesheet.
    // These defaults emphasize quality and precision, and
    // are more similar to the defaults of other SVG viewers.
    // SVG documents can still override these defaults.
    String css = "svg {" +
            "shape-rendering: geometricPrecision;" +
            "text-rendering:  geometricPrecision;" +
            "color-rendering: optimizeQuality;" +
            "image-rendering: optimizeQuality;" +
            "}";
    File cssFile = File.createTempFile("batik-default-override-", ".css");
    FileUtils.writeStringToFile(cssFile, css);

    TranscodingHints transcoderHints = new TranscodingHints();
    transcoderHints.put(ImageTranscoder.KEY_XML_PARSER_VALIDATING, Boolean.FALSE);
    transcoderHints.put(ImageTranscoder.KEY_DOM_IMPLEMENTATION,
            SVGDOMImplementation.getDOMImplementation());
    transcoderHints.put(ImageTranscoder.KEY_DOCUMENT_ELEMENT_NAMESPACE_URI,
            SVGConstants.SVG_NAMESPACE_URI);
    transcoderHints.put(ImageTranscoder.KEY_DOCUMENT_ELEMENT, "svg");
    transcoderHints.put(ImageTranscoder.KEY_USER_STYLESHEET_URI, cssFile.toURI().toString());

    try {

        TranscoderInput input = new TranscoderInput(new FileInputStream(svgFile));

        ImageTranscoder t = new ImageTranscoder() {

            @Override
            public BufferedImage createImage(int w, int h) {
                return new BufferedImage(w, h, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
            }

            @Override
            public void writeImage(BufferedImage image, TranscoderOutput out)
                    throws TranscoderException {
                imagePointer[0] = image;
            }
        };
        t.setTranscodingHints(transcoderHints);
        t.transcode(input, null);
    }
    catch (TranscoderException ex) {
        // Requires Java 6
        ex.printStackTrace();
        throw new IOException("Couldn't convert " + svgFile);
    }
    finally {
        cssFile.delete();
    }

    return imagePointer[0];
}