1) Create a rectangular polyline object 2) Create several polygons that fit inside the object 3) Using Adobe SVG Viewer in IE6 on XP to view svg looks OK 4) Using Solaris 9 and jdk1.5.0_06: java -jar batik-rasterizer.jar -m application/pdf simple.svg 5) Looking at simple.pdf in Adobe Reader 7.0.8 the polygons are shifted right and down.
Created attachment 18655 [details] Simple Scale Box
Created attachment 18656 [details] Simple Scale Box in pdf shifted
An online viewer http://view.samurajdata.se/ and Foxit Reader 1.3 both show the shifted poly problem
Can you check SVN version of Batik. This may already be fixed. There were some changes in the FOP PDFGraphics2D that improved the way it generated it's output.