JavaFX & Batik SVG Renderer: Minimal example

BufferedImageTranscoder.java

/**
 * This is a compilation of code snippets required to render SVG files in JavaFX using Batik.
 * See my full post on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/23894292/603003
 */

package proofofconcept;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderException;
import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderOutput;
import org.apache.batik.transcoder.image.ImageTranscoder;

/**
 * Many thanks to bb-generation for sharing this code!
 * @author bb-generation
 * @link https://web.archive.org/web/20131215231214/http://bbgen.net/blog/2011/06/java-svg-to-bufferedimage/
 * @license Unfortunately unknown, but using this code is probably categorized as "fair use" (because the code is in my opinion too simple to be licensed)
 */
public class BufferedImageTranscoder extends ImageTranscoder {

    private BufferedImage img = null;

    @Override
    public BufferedImage createImage(int width, int height) {
        BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
        return bi;
    }

    @Override
    public void writeImage(BufferedImage img, TranscoderOutput to) throws TranscoderException {
        this.img = img;
    }

    public BufferedImage getBufferedImage() {
        return img;
    }
}

Main.fxml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<?import javafx.scene.image.*?>
<?import java.lang.*?>
<?import java.util.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.control.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.*?>

<AnchorPane id="AnchorPane" prefHeight="200" prefWidth="320" xmlns="http://javafx.com/javafx/8" xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml/1" fx:controller="proofofconcept.MainMenuController">
   <children>
      <HBox layoutX="60.0" prefHeight="200.0" prefWidth="320.0" AnchorPane.bottomAnchor="0.0" AnchorPane.leftAnchor="0.0" AnchorPane.rightAnchor="0.0" AnchorPane.topAnchor="0.0">
         <children>
            <ImageView fx:id="imgView" fitHeight="150.0" fitWidth="200.0" layoutX="60.0" pickOnBounds="true" />
         </children>
      </HBox>
   </children>
</AnchorPane>

MainController.java

package proofofconcept;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ResourceBundle;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javafx.embed.swing.SwingFXUtils;
import javafx.fxml.FXML;
import javafx.fxml.Initializable;
import javafx.scene.image.ImageView;
import javafx.scene.image.WritableImage;
import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderException;
import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderInput;

public class MainController implements Initializable {

    @FXML
    private ImageView imgView;

    @Override
    public void initialize(URL url, ResourceBundle rb) {
        BufferedImageTranscoder trans = new BufferedImageTranscoder();

        // In my case I have added a file "svglogo.svg" in my project source folder within the default package.
        // Use any SVG file you like! I had success with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SVG_logo.svg
        try (InputStream file = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/svglogo.svg")) {
            TranscoderInput transIn = new TranscoderInput(file);
            try {
                trans.transcode(transIn, null);
                // Use WritableImage if you want to further modify the image (by using a PixelWriter)
                Image img = SwingFXUtils.toFXImage(trans.getBufferedImage(), null);
                imgView.setImage(img);
            } catch (TranscoderException ex) {
                Logger.getLogger(MainController.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
            }
        }
        catch (IOException io) {
            Logger.getLogger(MainController.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, io);
        }
    }
}

ProofOfConcept.java

package proofofconcept;

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader;
import javafx.scene.Parent;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class ProofOfConcept extends Application {
    
    @Override
    public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception {
        Parent root = FXMLLoader.load(getClass().getResource("Main.fxml"));
        
        Scene scene = new Scene(root);
        
        stage.setScene(scene);
        stage.show();
    }

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }
    
}