I tried TD idea of using "clip" and a big enough element to accomodate all possible images... ...but i still see images coming out bigger. more specifically, with ireports 3.6.1, and a jpeg that has a width of 281 px, 72 dpi, the html export has an image tag with a width of 496 px. the image in the html export is ok/still 281 px width, but the tag is stretching it to make it bigger. all i need is for the image size to remain unchanged and supporting dynamic images.... ?? any help appreciated much.