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Java code to convert an SVG into a BufferedImage (PNG, JPEG etc.) using Apache Batik
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SVGToBufferedImage
public BufferedImage createImageFromSVG(String svg) {
Reader reader = new BufferedReader(new StringReader(svg));
TranscoderInput svgImage = new TranscoderInput(reader);
BufferedImageTranscoder transcoder = new BufferedImageTranscoder();
transcoder.addTranscodingHint(PNGTranscoder.KEY_WIDTH, (float) component.getWidth());
transcoder.addTranscodingHint(PNGTranscoder.KEY_HEIGHT, (float) component.getHeight());
try {
transcoder.transcode(svgImage, null);
} catch (TranscoderException e) {
throw Throwables.propagate(e);
}
return transcoder.getImage();
}
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You can also convert svg to png format without the use of Batik Transcoder. Follow below link:

Nop. It doesn't work. ImageIO#read does not support SVG format.
You can find the supported formats following this link https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/2d/images/loadimage.html

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