SVG to PNG with Apache Batik then attach to PDF with PDFBox without saving images

Question

So as the title says I am looking for a way to turn SVG to PNG with Apache Batik and then attach this image to PDF file using PDFBox without actually creating the svg and png anywhere.

Currently I have a web form that has SVG image with selectable parts of it. When the form is submitted I take the "html" part of the svg meaning I keep something like <svg bla bla> <path bla bla/></svg> in a string that Spring then uses to create a ".svg" file in a given folder, then Batik creates a PNG file in the same folder and then PDFBox attaches it to the PDF - this works fine(code below).

//Get the svg data from the Form and Create the svg file
String svg = formData.getSvg();
File svgFile = new File("image.svg");
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(svgFile));
writer.write(svg);
writer.close(); 
// Send to Batik to turn to PNG
PNGTranscoder pngTranscode = new PNGTranscoder();
File svgFile = new File("image.svg");
InputStream in = new FileInputStream(svgFile);
TranscoderInput tIn = new TranscoderInput(in);
OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream("image.png");
TranscoderOutput tOut = new TranscoderOutput(os)
pngTranscode .transcode(tIn , tOut);
os.flush();
os.close();
//Send to PDFBox to attach to pdf
File pngfile = new File("image.png");
String path = pngfile.getAbsolutePath();                    
PDImageXObject pdImage = PDImageXObject.createFromFile(path, pdf);
PDPageContentStream contents = new PDPageContentStream(pdf, pdf.getPage(1));
contents.drawImage(pdImage, 0, pdf.getPage(1).getMediaBox().getHeight() - pdImage.getHeight()); 
contents.close();

As you can see there are a lot of files and stuff (need to tidy it up a bit), but is it possible to do this on the run without the creation and constant fetching of the svg and png files?

Answer 1

Given the suggestion in the comments I opted for using ByteArrayOutputStream, ByteArrayInputStream, BufferedImage and LosslessFactory. Its a bit slower than the saving (if you go through it in debug as seems the BufferedImage goes on a holiday first before creating the image). The sources I found to use are: How to convert SVG into PNG on-the-fly and Print byte[] to pdf using pdfbox

byte[] streamBytes = IOUtils.toByteArray(new ByteArrayInputStream(formData.getSvg().getBytes()));
PNGTranscoder pngTranscoder = new PNGTranscoder();
ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();                  
pngTranscoder.transcode(new TranscoderInput(new ByteArrayInputStream(streamBytes)), new TranscoderOutput(os));
InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(os.toByteArray());
BufferedImage bim = ImageIO.read(is);
PDImageXObject pdImage = LosslessFactory.createFromImage(pdf, bim);
PDPageContentStream contents = new PDPageContentStream(pdf, pdf.getPage(1));
contents.drawImage(pdImage, 0, pdf.getPage(1).getMediaBox().getHeight() - pdImage.getHeight()); 
contents.close();