diff --git a/Source/SvgDocument.cs b/Source/SvgDocument.cs
index b441c5cc1120e68910774d4cff1d1d41081dafe5..cd89dc046b873a1c66017331ae2ca5089b59f4f7 100644
--- a/Source/SvgDocument.cs
+++ b/Source/SvgDocument.cs
@@ -484,10 +484,10 @@ namespace Svg
 					renderer.SetBoundable(new GenericBoundable(0, 0, bitmap.Width, bitmap.Height));
 
 					//EO, 2014-12-05: Requested to ensure proper zooming (draw the svg in the bitmap size, ==> proper scaling)
-					//EO, 2015-01-09, Added GetDimensions to use its returned size instead of this.Width and this.Height (request of Icarrere).
+					//EO, 2015-01-09, Added GetDimensions to use its returned size instead of this.Width and this.Height (request of Icarrere).
                     //BBN, 2015-07-29, it is unnecassary to call again GetDimensions and transform to 1x1
                     //JA, 2015-12-18, this is actually necessary to correctly render the Draw(rasterHeight, rasterWidth) overload, otherwise the rendered graphic doesn't scale correctly
-                    SizeF size = this.GetDimensions();
+                    SizeF size = this.GetDimensions();
 					renderer.ScaleTransform(bitmap.Width / size.Width, bitmap.Height / size.Height);
 
 					//EO, 2014-12-05: Requested to ensure proper zooming out (reduce size). Otherwise it clip the image.
@@ -575,12 +575,12 @@ namespace Svg
             }
         }
 
-        public void Write(Stream stream)
+        public void Write(Stream stream, bool useBom = true)
         {
 
-            var xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(stream, Encoding.UTF8);
+            var xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(stream, useBom ? Encoding.UTF8 : new System.Text.UTF8Encoding(false));
             xmlWriter.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
-
+            xmlWriter.WriteStartDocument();
             xmlWriter.WriteDocType("svg", "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN", "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd", null);
             
             if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(this.ExternalCSSHref))
@@ -591,11 +591,11 @@ namespace Svg
             xmlWriter.Flush();
         }
 
-        public void Write(string path)
+        public void Write(string path, bool useBom = true)
         {
             using (var fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
             {
-                this.Write(fs);
+                this.Write(fs, useBom);
             }
         }
     }