If you downloaded the binary distribution of Batik, you should have gotten a file called batik-1.0beta.zip, and, after expanding that file, a JAR (Java ARchive) file called batik-rasterizer.jar. To start the rasterizer, open a console, go to the directory where you expanded the distribution (and where batik-rasterizer.jar is located) and simply type the following at the command prompt :

java -jar batik-rasterizer.jar [@files]

For example, if you type:

java -jar batik-rasterizer.jar samples/batikFX.svg

you will see the following printout:

Converting file:samples/batikFX.svg to ./samples/batikFX.png

Once the conversion is complete, you will find a batikFX.png file in the samples directory

You can pass options to the command line:

java -jar batik-rasterizer.jar [-d <directory>] [-m <mimeType>] [@files]

Where:

• -d <directory> lets you select the directory where the raster files will be generated.
• -m <mimeType> lets you select the mime type corresponding to the desired raster format for the generated images. Currently, the tool supports image/jpg and image/png. The default value is image/png

For example:

• java -jar batik-rasterizer.jar -d myDir -m image/jpg samples\*.svg will generate JPEG images for all the SVG files found in the samples directory.

If you downloaded the developer distribution of Batik, you got a zip or tar file that expanded into an xml-batik directory. In that directory, you can find build scripts for the platform you are running on. For example, there is a build.bat script for users of the Windows platform and there is a build.sh script for UNIX users.

To start the rasterizer you should:

• Make sure the xml-batik directory is in your PATH environment variable
• Make sure the ANT_HOME environment variable is set to the xml-batik directory
• Open a command line window and go to the xml-batik directory where the Batik distribution was expanded
• At the command prompt, type: build svgrasterizer. This will printout a help message for the rasterizer

You can pass options to the rasterizer as follows:

build svgrasterizer -Dargs="[-d <directory>] [-m <mimeType>] [@files]"

Refer to "Using the binary distribution" for an explanation of these options