SVG vector data to PNG

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brew upgrade
brew update
brew install cairo

brew install py2cairo
ln -s ~/Developer/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cairo ~/.virtualenvs/wpd/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cairo

# I needed to specify that my virtual environment uses python 2.7.3 because by default it used 2.7.2
# but brew compiled py2cairo with 2.7.3
mkvirtualenv --no-site-packages -p ~/Developer/bin/python wpd

pip install cairosvg

> from cairosvg import svg2png
> import base64

> binary = svg2png(<svg data>)
> b64 = base64.b64encode(binary)
> print "data:image/png;base64,%s" % b64

# The next steps are to pass this data to an ```<img>``` in an HTML template and render via [xhtml2pdf](https://github.com/chrisglass/xhtml2pdf)