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();
}