hi thomas, i am facing with similar problem of memory outburst when i try to convert svg to jpg. i tried the solution mentioned by you earlier to GVS.infact i am getting a null pointer exception. In the encode method of TIFFImageEncoder,it is calling encodeParam.getJPEGEncodeParam() to get the JPEGEncodeParam.the value of JPEGEncodeParam is coming as null.
/* Exception breakpoint occurred at line 441 of TIFFImageEncoder.java. java.lang.NullPointerException: java.lang.NullPointerException int org.apache.batik.ext.awt.image.codec.tiff.TIFFImageEncoder.encode(java.awt.image.RenderedImage, org.apache.batik.ext.awt.image.codec.tiff.TIFFEncodeParam, int, boolean) TIFFImageEncoder.java:441 void org.apache.batik.ext.awt.image.codec.tiff.TIFFImageEncoder.encode(java.awt.image.RenderedImage) TIFFImageEncoder.java:164 void org.apache.batik.apps.tiledTranscoder.TiledImageTranscoder.transcode(org.w3c.dom.Document, java.lang.String, org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderOutput) TiledImageTranscoder.java:76 void org.apache.batik.transcoder.XMLAbstractTranscoder.transcode(org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderInput, org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderOutput) XMLAbstractTranscoder.java:174 void org.apache.batik.transcoder.SVGAbstractTranscoder.transcode(org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderInput, org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderOutput) SVGAbstractTranscoder.java:188 */