diff --git a/bundles/org.eclipse.swt.svg/src/org/eclipse/swt/svg/JSVGRasterizer.java b/bundles/org.eclipse.swt.svg/src/org/eclipse/swt/svg/JSVGRasterizer.java
index 46b629f97e8..083b4933e72 100644
--- a/bundles/org.eclipse.swt.svg/src/org/eclipse/swt/svg/JSVGRasterizer.java
+++ b/bundles/org.eclipse.swt.svg/src/org/eclipse/swt/svg/JSVGRasterizer.java
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 import java.awt.*;
 import java.awt.image.*;
 import java.io.*;
-import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.*;
 import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.SVGRasterizer;
 import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.ImageData;
@@ -58,14 +57,12 @@ public static void intializeJSVGRasterizer() {
 	);
 
 	@Override
-	public ImageData rasterizeSVG(byte[] bytes, float scalingFactor) throws IOException {
+	public ImageData rasterizeSVG(InputStream stream, float scalingFactor) throws IOException {
 		if(svgLoader == null) {
 			svgLoader = new SVGLoader();
 		}
 		SVGDocument svgDocument = null;
-		try (InputStream stream = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes)) {
-			svgDocument = svgLoader.load(stream, null, LoaderContext.createDefault());
-		}
+		svgDocument = svgLoader.load(stream, null, LoaderContext.createDefault());
 		if (svgDocument != null) {
 			FloatSize size = svgDocument.size();
 			double originalWidth = size.getWidth();
diff --git a/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT/common/org/eclipse/swt/graphics/SVGRasterizer.java b/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT/common/org/eclipse/swt/graphics/SVGRasterizer.java
index 2c8ef36faa5..6da8c5b23ff 100644
--- a/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT/common/org/eclipse/swt/graphics/SVGRasterizer.java	
+++ b/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT/common/org/eclipse/swt/graphics/SVGRasterizer.java	
@@ -25,14 +25,14 @@ public interface SVGRasterizer {
 	 * Rasterizes an SVG image from the provided byte array, using the specified
 	 * zoom factor.
 	 *
-	 * @param bytes         the SVG image as a byte array.
+	 * @param stream        the SVG image as an {@link InputStream}.
 	 * @param scalingFactor the scaling ratio e.g. 2.0 for doubled size.
 	 * @return the {@link ImageData} for the rasterized image, or
 	 *         {@code null} if the input is not a valid SVG file or cannot be
 	 *         processed.
 	 * @throws IOException if an error occurs while reading the SVG data.
 	 */
-	public ImageData rasterizeSVG(byte[] bytes, float scalingFactor) throws IOException;
+	public ImageData rasterizeSVG(InputStream stream, float scalingFactor) throws IOException;
 
 	/**
 	 * Determines whether the given {@link InputStream} contains a SVG file.
diff --git a/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT/win32/org/eclipse/swt/graphics/ImageLoader.java b/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT/win32/org/eclipse/swt/graphics/ImageLoader.java
index 6928deedbca..afd2da911d8 100644
--- a/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT/win32/org/eclipse/swt/graphics/ImageLoader.java	
+++ b/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT/win32/org/eclipse/swt/graphics/ImageLoader.java	
@@ -189,10 +189,12 @@ public ImageData[] load(InputStream stream, int zoom) {
 		try (InputStream imageStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes)) {
 			if (rasterizer.isSVGFile(imageStream)) {
 				float scalingFactor = zoom / 100.0f;
-				ImageData rasterizedData = rasterizer.rasterizeSVG(bytes, scalingFactor);
-				if (rasterizedData != null) {
-					data = new ImageData[]{rasterizedData};
-				    return data;
+				try (InputStream svgFileStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes)) {
+					ImageData rasterizedData = rasterizer.rasterizeSVG(svgFileStream, scalingFactor);
+					if (rasterizedData != null) {
+						data = new ImageData[]{rasterizedData};
+					    return data;
+					}
 				}
 			}
 		} catch (IOException e) {