diff --git a/bin/report/render/rml2pdf/trml2pdf.py b/bin/report/render/rml2pdf/trml2pdf.py
index 2dc7af819dd..b281b34636b 100644
--- a/bin/report/render/rml2pdf/trml2pdf.py
+++ b/bin/report/render/rml2pdf/trml2pdf.py
@@ -619,6 +619,7 @@ class _rml_flowable(object):
                         newtext = utils._process_text(self, node.text or '')
                         node.text = newtext
                     image_data = base64.decodestring(node.text)
+                if not image_data: return False
                 image = cStringIO.StringIO(image_data)
                 return platypus.Image(image, mask=(250,255,250,255,250,255), **(utils.attr_get(node, ['width','height'])))
             else:
diff --git a/bin/report/render/rml2pdf/utils.py b/bin/report/render/rml2pdf/utils.py
index ef916650034..8d10629a6f6 100644
--- a/bin/report/render/rml2pdf/utils.py
+++ b/bin/report/render/rml2pdf/utils.py
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ def _child_get(node, self=None, tagname=None):
                 n2 = copy.deepcopy(n)
                 n2.tag = tag
                 n2.attrib.update(attr or {})
-                print etree.tostring(n2)
                 yield n2
                 tagname = ''
             except: