diff --git a/components/fpvectorial/fpvectorial.pas b/components/fpvectorial/fpvectorial.pas
index 73bb2af08f..8c78fbb2c1 100644
--- a/components/fpvectorial/fpvectorial.pas
+++ b/components/fpvectorial/fpvectorial.pas
@@ -2624,6 +2624,8 @@ var
 begin
   inherited Render(ADest, ARenderInfo, ADestX, ADestY, AMulX, AMulY, ADoDraw);
 
+  if Document.GetPageCount() = 0 then Exit;
+
   lPage := Document.GetPage(0);
   lPageHeight := Round(lPage.Height);
   lPage.GetNaturalRenderPos(lPageHeight, lMulY);
diff --git a/components/fpvectorial/htmlvectorialreader.pas b/components/fpvectorial/htmlvectorialreader.pas
index cb2ba5ac85..e613e9945b 100644
--- a/components/fpvectorial/htmlvectorialreader.pas
+++ b/components/fpvectorial/htmlvectorialreader.pas
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ interface
 
 uses
   Classes, SysUtils, math, contnrs,
-  fpimage, fpcanvas, laz2_xmlread, laz2_dom, fgl,
+  fpimage, fpcanvas, laz2_xmlread, laz2_dom, fgl, lazfileutils,
   // image data formats
   fpreadpng,
   // HTML can contain SVG
@@ -232,7 +232,8 @@ begin
           else if TvVectorialDocument.GetFormatFromExtension(lAttrValue, False) <> vfUnknown then
           begin
             lEmbVecImg := ADest.AddEmbeddedVectorialDoc();
-            lEmbVecImg.Document.ReadFromFile(lAttrValue);
+            if FileExistsUTF8(lAttrValue) then
+              lEmbVecImg.Document.ReadFromFile(lAttrValue);
           end;
         end;
         'xlink:href':