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I need to adapt some Python code that converts HTML to PDF using QPrinter. The HTML includes some PNGs, but these now need to be replaced by SVGs. I do not really know how to do this. I naively replaced the PNGs with equivalent SVGs, but then the SVGs did not show up in the resulting PDF. To be more concrete, something like this

from PyQt4.QtGui import QTextDocument, QPrinter, QApplication
import sys
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
doc = QTextDocument()
doc.setHtml('''
        <h1>Circle</h1>
            <p><img src="circle.svg"/></p>
     </body>
</html>
printer = QPrinter()
printer.setOutputFileName("circle.pdf")
printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter.PdfFormat)
doc.print_(printer)
with circle.svg given by
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
    <circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" fill="orange" /> 
does not seem to work, whereas replacing the SVG with an equivalent PNG produces a perfect PDF. Does anyone know how to fix this? 
                We are still working toward a good solution on this but would welcome help from folks that want to contribute to the JS and other development. We will move everything over to Github nexxt week but you can look here. includes SVG at the end ... xportability.com/XEPOnline/FOTestSuite.html
– Kevin Brown
                Jul 20, 2014 at 9:26
I ended up using pdfkit (see https://github.com/JazzCore/python-pdfkit), following the instructions given here: wkhtmltopdf failure when embed an SVG. The Python code now looks like this:
import base64
import os
import pdfkit
with open("circle.svg") as f:
    data=f.read()
    encoded_string = base64.b64encode(data.encode('utf-8'))
    b64 = encoded_string.decode('utf-8')
    html = '''
            <h1>Circle</h1>
                <p><img alt="" src="data:image/svg+xml;base64,''' + b64 + '''" /></p>
        </body>
    </html>
    pdfkit.from_string(html, "circle.pdf")
with the SVG modified to:
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="100" height="100">
    <circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" fill="orange" /> 
I guess that it should still be possible to fix the code without resorting to another library, but this solution is workable for me.
        
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