I am using PyDev plugin for Eclipse with Qt integration. I have PySide installed and I am having trouble with SVG image formats. I know when I run my application the formats located in C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\PySide\plugins\imageformats are found. All but the SVG format. I can remove the qico4.dll and it no longer finds them and put it back in and it finds them again.

I am using this line in my code: plugs = QtGui.QImageReader.supportedImageFormats()

It finds all of the formats except the SVG format from the qsvg4.dll? Why would this be? I have searched and searched and searched and can’t seem to find out why. Should the format show up in the supported image formats? Is there something else I need to do to use SVG images? I can use .ico files fine which require the qico4.dll and is located in the same place which is why I am not understanding what the problem is? Any help is appreciated!

In order to use SVG images, you need to import QtSvg and QtXml and also ensure that the plugin directory is imported properly.

The following code does that successfully for me:

import os
import PySide
from PySide import QtSvg, QtXml
# You need to have created your QApplication already...
qApp = QApplication.instance()
for plugins_dir in [os.path.join(p, "plugins") for p in PySide.__path__]:qApp.addLibraryPath(plugins_dir)