As promised here is a very simple PDF that contains a SVG-based p_w_picpath. 

The SVG contains the following data:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg width="300" height="300" version="1.1"
 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<rect x="40" y="20" rx="20" ry="20" width="250" height="250"
  style="fill:red;stroke:black;stroke-width:1;"/>
</svg>
Here is the Java code:

 

publicstaticvoid main(String[] args) {
        Document document =new Document();
try {
            PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document,
new FileOutputStream("svg.pdf"));
            document.open();
            document.add(new Paragraph("SVG Example"));
int width =250;
int height =250;
            PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
            PdfTemplate template = cb.createTemplate(width,height);         
            Graphics2D g2 = template.createGraphics(width,height);          
            PrintTranscoder prm =new PrintTranscoder();
            TranscoderInput ti =new TranscoderInput("file:///c:\\java\\svg.xml");
            prm.transcode(ti, null);
            PageFormat pg =new PageFormat();
            Paper pp=new Paper();
            pp.setSize(width, height);
            pp.setImageableArea(0, 0, width, height);
            pg.setPaper(pp);
            prm.print(g2, pg, 0); 
            g2.dispose(); 
            ImgTemplate img =new ImgTemplate(template);           
            document.add(img);
        } catch (DocumentException e) {
            System.err.println(e);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println(e);
        }
        document.close();
      }

 

Keep in mind that you will need the Batik and Xerces libraries in addition to the iTExt jar file.