diff --git a/src/display/svg.js b/src/display/svg.js
index 25353ebbb..16f3bc228 100644
--- a/src/display/svg.js
+++ b/src/display/svg.js
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ var convertImgDataToPng = (function convertImgDataToPngClosure() {
     return idat;
   }
 
-  function encode(imgData, kind, forceDataSchema) {
+  function encode(imgData, kind, forceDataSchema, isMask) {
     var width = imgData.width;
     var height = imgData.height;
     var bitDepth, colorType, lineSize;
@@ -220,8 +220,8 @@ var convertImgDataToPng = (function convertImgDataToPngClosure() {
       offsetLiterals += lineSize;
     }
 
-    if (kind === ImageKind.GRAYSCALE_1BPP) {
-      // inverting for B/W
+    if (kind === ImageKind.GRAYSCALE_1BPP && isMask) {
+      // inverting for image masks
       offsetLiterals = 0;
       for (y = 0; y < height; y++) {
         offsetLiterals++; // skipping predictor
@@ -265,10 +265,10 @@ var convertImgDataToPng = (function convertImgDataToPngClosure() {
     return createObjectURL(data, 'image/png', forceDataSchema);
   }
 
-  return function convertImgDataToPng(imgData, forceDataSchema) {
+  return function convertImgDataToPng(imgData, forceDataSchema, isMask) {
     var kind = (imgData.kind === undefined ?
                 ImageKind.GRAYSCALE_1BPP : imgData.kind);
-    return encode(imgData, kind, forceDataSchema);
+    return encode(imgData, kind, forceDataSchema, isMask);
   };
 })();
 
@@ -1161,7 +1161,7 @@ SVGGraphics = (function SVGGraphicsClosure() {
       var width = imgData.width;
       var height = imgData.height;
 
-      var imgSrc = convertImgDataToPng(imgData, this.forceDataSchema);
+      var imgSrc = convertImgDataToPng(imgData, this.forceDataSchema, !!mask);
       var cliprect = this.svgFactory.createElement('svg:rect');
       cliprect.setAttributeNS(null, 'x', '0');
       cliprect.setAttributeNS(null, 'y', '0');
diff --git a/test/pdfs/.gitignore b/test/pdfs/.gitignore
index bed1b9c37..95bcc0f9a 100644
--- a/test/pdfs/.gitignore
+++ b/test/pdfs/.gitignore
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@
 !issue5084.pdf
 !issue8960_reduced.pdf
 !issue5202.pdf
+!images_1bit_grayscale.pdf
 !issue5280.pdf
 !issue5677.pdf
 !issue5954.pdf
diff --git a/test/pdfs/images_1bit_grayscale.pdf b/test/pdfs/images_1bit_grayscale.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4cf15c794
Binary files /dev/null and b/test/pdfs/images_1bit_grayscale.pdf differ
diff --git a/test/test_manifest.json b/test/test_manifest.json
index 17b2d882e..3574afe65 100644
--- a/test/test_manifest.json
+++ b/test/test_manifest.json
@@ -2017,6 +2017,12 @@
        "type": "eq",
        "about": "Type1 font where Length1/Length2 are several orders of magnitude too large."
     },
+    {  "id": "images_1bit_grayscale",
+       "file": "pdfs/images_1bit_grayscale.pdf",
+       "md5": "e1c36a19563944891bd30cfc0199d07f",
+       "rounds": 1,
+       "type": "eq"
+    },
     {  "id": "html5checker",
       "file": "pdfs/html5checker.pdf",
       "md5": "74bbd80d1e7eb5f2951582233ef9ebab",