diff --git a/include/tcpdf_static.php b/include/tcpdf_static.php
index 4cee355e..395bb958 100644
--- a/include/tcpdf_static.php
+++ b/include/tcpdf_static.php
@@ -1961,7 +1961,6 @@ public static function fileGetContents($file) {
 				// try to get remote file data using cURL
 				$crs = curl_init();
 				curl_setopt($crs, CURLOPT_URL, $path);
-				curl_setopt($crs, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
 				curl_setopt($crs, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
 				curl_setopt($crs, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 				if ((ini_get('open_basedir') == '') && (!ini_get('safe_mode'))) {
diff --git a/tcpdf.php b/tcpdf.php
index 1abf622a..af5beb97 100644
--- a/tcpdf.php
+++ b/tcpdf.php
@@ -19055,7 +19055,7 @@ protected function openHTMLTagHandler($dom, $key, $cell) {
 				if ($imgsrc[0] === '@') {
 					// data stream
 					$imgsrc = '@'.base64_decode(substr($imgsrc, 1));
-					$type = '';
+					$type = preg_match('/<svg([^\>]*)>/si', $imgsrc) ? 'svg' : '';
 				} else if (preg_match('@^data:image/([^;]*);base64,(.*)@', $imgsrc, $reg)) {
 					$imgsrc = '@'.base64_decode($reg[2]);
 					$type = $reg[1];
@@ -23445,8 +23445,8 @@ protected function setSVGStyles($svgstyle, $prevsvgstyle, $x=0, $y=0, $w=1, $h=1
 				$cy -= $h;
 			}
 			$this->_out(sprintf('%F 0 0 %F %F %F cm', ($w * $this->k), ($h * $this->k), ($x * $this->k), ($cy * $this->k)));
-			if (count($gradient['stops']) > 1) {
-				$this->Gradient($gradient['type'], $gradient['coords'], $gradient['stops'], array(), false);
+			if ((is_array($gradient['stops']) || $gradient['stops'] instanceof Countable) && count($gradient['stops']) > 1) {
+				$this->Gradient($gradient['type'], $gradient['coords'], $gradient['stops']);
 			}
 		} elseif ($svgstyle['fill'] != 'none') {
 			$fill_color = TCPDF_COLORS::convertHTMLColorToDec($svgstyle['fill'], $this->spot_colors);