Image not getting displayed in PDF.

[Cognos8]

i have placed my image in report studio and it is maped to gif file.
this file is taken from our client web site not from any shared path or
cognos webserver config path. when i run this report in PDF this logo
is not getting displayed.but it displays in HTML.  PDF adobe version i use is 9.4.5 Have anyone faced this kind of issue?

[RL_Boston]

Interesting ...  our images are saved on a shared folder on the Application Server. I do have issues displaying the image in Excel files.