I made an ebuild for the current batik version with Xavier's instructions (see bug #29045).
Created attachment 18728 [details] batik-1.5.ebuild
Created attachment 20144 [details] Transparent PNG of batik logo used for squiggle browser launcher.
Thank you for submitting this. I made an ebuild myself for 1.5 by copying/pasting from the 1.1.1 ebuild; it installed okay, but I could not run the Squiggle browser. I e-mailed the batik users mailing list asking for assistance, and I was told to move batik-squiggle.jar and batik-rasterizer.jar up one directory to /usr/share/batik. Your ebuild fixed this problem, but the folks on the batik users mailing list seemed to question why those two jar files were in /usr/share/batik. Just an FYI. I attached an 80x80 PNG you can use for an icon. I like to have commonly used programs on my Gnome panel, and this icon of the batik logo helps to identify my launcher for the squiggle browser. The command I used to start squiggle is "java -jar /usr/share/batik/lib/batik-squiggle.jar".
(not a place to comment, but here it goes anyway) Please replace the existing Batik build (1.1.1) with this build as the later does not work properly. This, however, works perfectly.
Version bumped + fixes. Now in portage, thanks.