Background Image/Frame for the graph

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Is there a way to give GraphViz an SVG file that is used as a background image?
What I want to do is to draw the graph in the center of an SVG file that contains a frame.

I took a look at the image attribute for a node and though maybe a node that contains the background and where everything of the graph is written over it, but I was not able to do it.

I know that one can take the SVG output and then fuse it with other tools, but it would be nice if there is a way directly with GraphViz.

This is for:

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p1
p1708×439 138 KB

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I think the last one with neato sound promising,
could you give an example?
I am currently strugeling to even get a SVG image to display on Windows, I get the error(Warning: No loadimage plugin for "svg:cairo") and I am trying to install cairo. (PNG Works)

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First produce the basic graph, but in dot output format:

dot wireviz1.gv | 
gvpr -cf pin2pin1.gvpr |
neato -n2 >p1.dot

Then modify the result (I just did a hand edit) and insert a node with pos = midpoint of the above graphs’s bb (bounding box). This was inserted:
under[pos="260,130" image="image_dir/cow.jpg" label=""]

Like so:

graph {
	graph [bb="0,0,522.75,261.5",
		bgcolor="#FFFFFF",
		fontname=arial,
		nodesep=0.33,
		rankdir=LR,
		ranksep=2
	];
// result of hand edit, note my pos is based on bb, but not exact
under[pos="260,130" image="image_dir/cow.jpg" label=""]

	node [fillcolor="#FFFFFF",
		fontname=arial,
		height=0,
		label="\N",
		margin=0,
		shape=none,
		style=filled,
		width=0
	];
	edge [color="#000000",
		constraint=false,
		fontname=arial,
		headclip=false,
		label=" ",
		style=dashed,
		tailclip=false
	];
// and the rest of the graph