I made a report with iReport 5.0.1, and after I checked "Force SVG Shapes" in the PDF export options, the SVG shapes are rendered as they should when generating the report as PDF. BUT: When I deployed the report to the Jasperserver from within iReport, the Report is stopped being rendered with an error. The Expression I use in iReport (which works) is (for some reason the code here in this editor is converted into html, so I changed the brackets into round ones): (image) (reportElement uuid="6d70bf5f-9652-4df1-9715-16de7fdffd1e" x="0" y="0" width="78" height="33"/) (imageExpression class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRRenderable")(![CDATA[net.sf.jasperreports.renderers.BatikRenderer.getInstance(new java.io.File("Z:\jaspersoft\reports\logo.svg"))]])(/imageExpression) (/image) On the server I changed the path to "repo:logo.svg" and uploaded the SVG via iReport into the resources folder. The error I get is: net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRExpressionEvalException: Error evaluating expression : Source text : net.sf.jasperreports.renderers.BatikRenderer.getInstance(new java.io.File("repo:logo_de.svg")) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JREvaluator.evaluate(JREvaluator.java:203) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRCalculator.evaluate(JRCalculator.java:591) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRCalculator.evaluate(JRCalculator.java:559) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillElement.evaluateExpression(JRFillElement.java:966) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillImage.evaluateImage(JRFillImage.java:483) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillImage.evaluate(JRFillImage.java:463) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillElementContainer.evaluate(JRFillElementContainer.java:259) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillBand.evaluate(JRFillBand.java:459) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillColumnBand(JRVerticalFiller.java:2044) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillDetail(JRVerticalFiller.java:778) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillReportStart(JRVerticalFiller.java:288) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillReport(JRVerticalFiller.java:151) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.fill(JRBaseFiller.java:909) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.BaseFillHandle$ReportFiller.run(BaseFillHandle.java:120) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl$SynchronousExecutor.execute(EngineServiceImpl.java:859) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.BaseFillHandle.startFill(BaseFillHandle.java:165) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl$AsynchronousReportFiller.fillReport(EngineServiceImpl.java:821) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl.fillReport(EngineServiceImpl.java:1622) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl$ReportFill.runReport(EngineServiceImpl.java:1005) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl$ReportRunnable.run(EngineServiceImpl.java:881) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException: Error loading byte data : repo:logo_de.svg at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRLoader.loadBytes(JRLoader.java:419) at net.sf.jasperreports.renderers.BatikRenderer.getInstance(BatikRenderer.java:318) at net.sf.jasperreports.renderers.BatikRenderer$getInstance.call(Unknown Source) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:45) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:108) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:116) at report3_1359470066359_298192.evaluate(calculator_report3_1359470066359_298192:199) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JREvaluator.evaluate(JREvaluator.java:190) ... 22 more Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: repo:logo_de.svg (No such file or directory) at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileInputStream.(FileInputStream.java:106) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRLoader.loadBytes(JRLoader.java:405) ... 29 more 2013-01-29 15:34:28,714 ERROR errorPage_jsp,http-8080-20:487 - stack trace of exception that redirected to errorPage.jsp com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.JSException: Error filling report at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl$FillResultListener.reportFillError(EngineServiceImpl.java:1178) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.BaseFillHandle.notifyError(BaseFillHandle.java:211) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.BaseFillHandle$ReportFiller.run(BaseFillHandle.java:135) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl$SynchronousExecutor.execute(EngineServiceImpl.java:859) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.BaseFillHandle.startFill(BaseFillHandle.java:165) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl$AsynchronousReportFiller.fillReport(EngineServiceImpl.java:821) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl.fillReport(EngineServiceImpl.java:1622) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl$ReportFill.runReport(EngineServiceImpl.java:1005) at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl$ReportRunnable.run(EngineServiceImpl.java:881) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRExpressionEvalException: Error evaluating expression : Source text : net.sf.jasperreports.renderers.BatikRenderer.getInstance(new java.io.File("repo:logo_de.svg")) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JREvaluator.evaluate(JREvaluator.java:203) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRCalculator.evaluate(JRCalculator.java:591) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRCalculator.evaluate(JRCalculator.java:559) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillElement.evaluateExpression(JRFillElement.java:966) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillImage.evaluateImage(JRFillImage.java:483) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillImage.evaluate(JRFillImage.java:463) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillElementContainer.evaluate(JRFillElementContainer.java:259) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillBand.evaluate(JRFillBand.java:459) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillColumnBand(JRVerticalFiller.java:2044) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillDetail(JRVerticalFiller.java:778) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillReportStart(JRVerticalFiller.java:288) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.fillReport(JRVerticalFiller.java:151) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.fill(JRBaseFiller.java:909) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.BaseFillHandle$ReportFiller.run(BaseFillHandle.java:120) ... 9 more Caused by: net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException: Error loading byte data : repo:logo_de.svg at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRLoader.loadBytes(JRLoader.java:419) at net.sf.jasperreports.renderers.BatikRenderer.getInstance(BatikRenderer.java:318) at net.sf.jasperreports.renderers.BatikRenderer$getInstance.call(Unknown Source) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:45) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:108) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:116) at report3_1359470066359_298192.evaluate(calculator_report3_1359470066359_298192:199) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JREvaluator.evaluate(JREvaluator.java:190) ... 22 more Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: repo:logo_de.svg (No such file or directory) at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileInputStream.(FileInputStream.java:106) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRLoader.loadBytes(JRLoader.java:405) ... 29 more What goes wrong here???