Hello, I was able to get Batik to generate an SVG text output using the following algorithm (from the Batik website) on java components such as a JPanel ( the this instance is of JPanel).
try { DOMImplementation domImpl = GenericDOMImplementation.getDOMImplementation(); // Create an instance of org.w3c.dom.Document Document document = domImpl.createDocument(null, "svg", null); // Create an instance of the SVG Generator SVGGraphics2D svgGenerator = new SVGGraphics2D(document); // Ask the test to render into the SVG Graphics2D implementation this.paint(svgGenerator); // Finally, stream out SVG to the standard output using UTF-8 // character to byte encoding boolean useCSS = true; // we want to use CSS style attribute Writer out = new OutputStreamWriter(System.out, "UTF-8"); svgGenerator.stream(out, useCSS); } catch (java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (org.apache.batik.svggen.SVGGraphics2DIOException eSVGGraphics2DIOException) { eSVGGraphics2DIOException.printStackTrace(); } However when I apply the same algorithm (the this instance is of MY_JLAYEREDPANE, which extends JLayeredPane) to a JLayeredPane I get the following exception: java.lang.NullPointerException at javax.swing.JLayeredPane.paint(JLayeredPane.java:539) at MY.COM.MY_JLAYEREDPANE.paint(MY_JLAYEREDPANE.java:88) at MY.COM.MY_JLAYEREDPANE.renderSVG2(MY_JLAYEREDPANE.java:126) at MY.COM.MY_JLAYEREDPANE.paint(MY_JLAYEREDPANE.java:92) at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:493) at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:691) at javax.swing.JViewport.paint(JViewport.java:663) at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:493) at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:691) at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:493) at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:691) at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:493) at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:691) at javax.swing.JLayeredPane.paint(JLayeredPane.java:541) at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:493) at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:664) at java.awt.GraphicsCallback$PaintCallback.run(GraphicsCallback.java:18) at sun.awt.SunGraphicsCallback.runOneComponent(SunGraphicsCallback.java:49) at sun.awt.SunGraphicsCallback.runComponents(SunGraphicsCallback.java:86) at java.awt.Container.paint(Container.java:955) at sun.awt.RepaintArea.paint(RepaintArea.java:293) at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.handleEvent(WComponentPeer.java:191) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:2658) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1208) at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:923) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2492) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:334) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:126) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:93) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:88) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:80) I've searched Google with no success. and the mailing list websites referenced from the batik is unsearchable. If you could reply directly to me that would be great. I'm using Windows XP Pro on JDK 1.3.1.11. Thanks...Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]