This report makes use of an external image which is too large to display

[elocism]

I am getting the following error in a paginated report on the web:

Any ideas?  The image Size setting is currently 'Fit proportional'.  Other images of the same resolution render fine, and ALL images render fine in my local Report Builder application.  This is only affecting the report in the service.

[ajackson_hcus]

I had this issue and came across this forum post (which didn't have any particularly helpful information in it). Our SSRS instance didn't have an issue with the large images before, but in PowerBI they had the issue above.
For anyone that comes across this later, the fix is described in the "PowerBI Guidance Documentation".

"Images stored on a web server must not exceed 4 MB in size or they will not load in the Power BI service."
From: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/report-paginated-image

Keeping the external images under 4MB what fixed this for us. Since we needed to do this in an automated way, we decided to use ImageMagick to accomplish this because they have a feature with their JPEG exporter to limit to a particular file size:

"-define jpeg:extent={size} As of IM v6.5.8-2 you can specify a maximum output filesize for the JPEG image."
From: https://usage.imagemagick.org/formats/#jpg

[GilbertQ]

HI @elocism 

I think what the error means is that the file size is too large and needs to be made smaller?