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How can I set background fill of a run (a word in line or a paragraph) in a docx file by using Apache POI?

I know that it is possible to set the color of the run by: How can I set background colour of a run (a word in line or a paragraph) in a docx file by using Apache POI?
The relevant code is for example (see the answer in the referenced question):
XWPFRun run=paragraph.createRun();
run.setText("background color");
CTShd cTShd = run.getCTR().addNewRPr().addNewShd();
cTShd.setVal(STShd.CLEAR);
cTShd.setColor("auto");
cTShd.setFill("00FFFF");
I would like to use an image instead as a pattern, is it possible? I know that the argument used for the fill argument is an object, so is it possible to use a picture reference or something like that?
I also know how to add directly a picture in a docx document, for example:
Image image = // my image to use
float widthEMU = // the width of the image in EMU
float heightEMU = // the height of the image in EMU
BufferedImage bimage = new BufferedImage((int) width, (int) height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
// Draw the image on to the buffered image
Graphics2D bGr = bimage.createGraphics();
bGr.drawImage(_image, 0, 0, null);
bGr.dispose();
ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ImageIO.write(bimage, "png", os);
InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(os.toByteArray());
XWPFPicture pic = run.addPicture(is, XWPFDocument.PICTURE_TYPE_PNG, "Picture", widthEMU, heightEMU);

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

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?

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();

Based on the comments and links provided by D.V.D., I also worked through the problem. I just wanted to post the simple but full example, for anyone wanting to review in the future.
public class App {
private static String OUTPUT_PATH = "D:\\so52875145\\output\\PdfWithPngImage.pdf";
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
// obtain the SVG source (hardcoded here, but the OP would obtain the String from form data)
byte[] svgByteArray = "<svg xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\"><polygon points=\"200,10 250,190 160,210\" style=\"fill:lime;stroke:purple;stroke-width:1\" /></svg>".getBytes();
System.out.println("Converted svg to byte array...");
// convert SVG into PNG image
PNGTranscoder pngTranscoder = new PNGTranscoder();
ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
pngTranscoder.transcode(new TranscoderInput(new ByteArrayInputStream(svgByteArray)), new TranscoderOutput(os));
System.out.println("Transcoded svg to png...");
// create PDF, and add page to it
PDDocument pdf = new PDDocument();
pdf.addPage(new PDPage());
// generate in-memory PDF image object, using the transcoded ByteArray stream
BufferedImage bufferedImage = ImageIO.read( new ByteArrayInputStream(os.toByteArray()) );
PDImageXObject pdImage = LosslessFactory.createFromImage(pdf, bufferedImage);
System.out.println("Created PDF image object...");
// write the in-memory PDF image object to the PDF page
PDPageContentStream contents = new PDPageContentStream(pdf, pdf.getPage(0));
contents.drawImage(pdImage, 0, 0);
contents.close();
System.out.println("Wrote PDF image object to PDF...");
pdf.save(OUTPUT_PATH);
pdf.close();
System.out.println("Saved PDF to path=[" + OUTPUT_PATH + "]");
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

Change in color while using ImageIO.read()

I am trying to read images from external directory and for that I am using
bufferedImage image=ImageIO.read(new File(imagefile));
jlabel.seticon(new imageicon(image));
and getting a drastic change in colors. I tried many other things like:
bufferedImage image=ImageIO.read(new File(imagefile));
bufferedImage img=new bufferedImage(image.getWidth(),image.getHeight(),bufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
and I tried:
img.setData(image.getData();
jlabel.seticon(new imageicon(image));
and I tried:
Iterator readers = ImageIO.getImageReadersByFormatName("JPEG");
ImageReader reader = null;
while(readers.hasNext()) {
reader = (ImageReader)readers.next();
if(reader.canReadRaster()) {
break;
}
}
ImageInputStream input = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(f);
reader.setInput(input);
Raster raster = reader.readRaster(0, null);
BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(raster.getWidth(), raster.getHeight(),
BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR);
bi.getRaster().setRect(raster);
but result are still same
http://i.stack.imgur.com/jNVm0.jpg
Here is an example of the issue:
The minimal code for viewing is:
bufferedImage image=ImageIO.read(new File(imagefile));
jlabel.seticon(new imageicon(image));
lbitem.setIcon(im);
and for storing
File f = new File(s);
long size=f.length();
FileInputStream fis1=new FileInputStream(f);
FileOutputStream fos2=new FileOutputStream("src/image/"+tfpn.getText()+".jpg");
byte b[]=new byte[1000];
int r=0;
long count=0;
while(true)
{
r=fis1.read(b,0,1000);
fos2.write(b,0,1000);
count = count+r;
if(count==size)
break;
System.out.println(count);
}
What could be causing the bad colors?

This problem is cause by a mismatch between reading/writing (creating/using) an image
that contains alpha (transparency) but you are expecting it to contain no alpha (or the inverse).
For example, if your image is BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR and you output it
to a file type that does not support alpha (transparency) , or you writer does not
support alpha, it will look like your sample after reading and displaying it.
Use type PNG (supports alpha channel) not JPG (does not support alpha channel)

Converting BMP to Gif

I need help to convert a .BMP image to .gif .
I am struggling with preserving the quality of the the converted gif image. I need help here . Following is the related code. Any help is appreciated.
//now Convert the names to lower case and change the extension to the file as a .gif file under the images directory
//you can either use URL or File for reading image using ImageIO
bufferedSourceImg = ImageIO.read(fSource);
//getting the RGB mode color value
int color = bufferedSourceImg.getRGB(0,0);
Image image = makeColorTransparent(bufferedSourceImg,new Color(color));
//getting the transparent image
BufferedImage transparent = imageToBufferedImage(image);
//generating the name of the gif image which will be created from the bmp
int idx = destFName.lastIndexOf(".");
destFName = destFName.substring(0, idx);
destFName = destFName + ".gif";
gifFile = new File(getImagesDirectory(), destFName);
//copying the gif copy of the image
Iterator itr = ImageIO.getImageWritersByFormatName("gif");
ImageWriter gifWriter = (ImageWriter)itr.next();
ImageWriteParam iwp = gifWriter.getDefaultWriteParam();
iwp.setCompressionMode(ImageWriteParam.MODE_EXPLICIT);
String compTypes[] = iwp.getCompressionTypes();
iwp.setCompressionType(compTypes[compTypes.length - 1]);
iwp.setCompressionQuality(0);
//ImageIO.write(transparent, "gif", gifFile);
ImageIO.write(bufferedSourceImg, "gif", gifFile);
FileImageOutputStream output = new FileImageOutputStream(gifFile);
gifWriter.setOutput(output);
IIOImage iioImage = new IIOImage(transparent, null, null);
gifWriter.write(null, iioImage, iwp);
gifWriter.dispose();

antialiasing in java image scaling library

I am currently using http://code.google.com/p/java-image-scaling/ this library to generate scaled images for my web app.But when I scale down the image to about 100x100 size there are some leftover artifacts visible in some images. Is this an issue with antialiasing? And how do I use antialiasing with this library.The api documentation doesn't say any thing about it.
Here is the code
File f = new File("C:\\Users\\ad min\\Pictures\\30-whisky-3d-wallpaper-1152x864.jpg");
BufferedImage src = ImageIO.read(f);
//ResampleOp resampleOp = new ResampleOp(76, 76);
ResampleOp resampleOp = new ResampleOp(200,200);
resampleOp.setUnsharpenMask(AdvancedResizeOp.UnsharpenMask.VerySharp);
BufferedImage rescaled = resampleOp.filter(src, null);
ImageIO.write(rescaled, "JPG", new File(
"C:\\Users\\ad min\\Pictures\\scaleddown.jpg"));
what am I doing wrong?

I finally didn't need antialiasing I simply used this code given in the foloowing link and it worked :) whewww
http://www.universalwebservices.net/web-programming-resources/java/adjust-jpeg-image-
compression-quality-when-saving-images-in-java
Iterator<ImageWriter> iter = ImageIO
.getImageWritersByFormatName("jpeg");
ImageWriter writer = (ImageWriter) iter.next();
// instantiate an ImageWriteParam object with default compression
// options
ImageWriteParam iwp = writer.getDefaultWriteParam();
iwp.setCompressionMode(ImageWriteParam.MODE_EXPLICIT);
iwp.setCompressionQuality(1); // an integer between 0 and 1
// 1 specifies minimum compression and maximum quality
File file = new File("C:\\Users\\ad min\\Pictures\\scaleddown.jpg");
FileImageOutputStream output = new FileImageOutputStream(file);
writer.setOutput(output);
IIOImage image = new IIOImage(rescaled, null, null);
writer.write(null, image, iwp);
writer.dispose();