Batik requires the following systems to be already installed in your system:

• Java Virtual Machine A Java 1.2 or greater compatible virtual machine must be present.

The Ant and Stylebook packages are only used in the build system and are not used by Batik at run-time. So you can safely ignore them in the installation.

By default, Batik distribution comes with the Mozilla Rhino JavaScript Engine.

To enable other scripting languages support, you will only need to install the correct jar files in lib directory of Batik and to recompile your distribution.

• For Python, you need to download JPython distribution at the following URL http://www.jpython.org. Then you put the jpython.jar file in the Batik lib directory.
• For Tcl, you need to download Jacl & TclBlend distribution at the following URL http://dev.scriptics.com/software/java. Then you put the jacl.jar & tcljava.jar files in the Batik lib directory.

To know how to recompile your distribution you can have a look at Building Batik section below.

Conversely, you can remove the js.jar of the Batik lib directory to remove JavaScript support and have a smaller distribution.

If you have any problems, please look at the FAQ before submitting a bug report or a request for help on the mailing lists. Thank you.