diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/doxygen_translate.i b/Examples/test-suite/doxygen_translate.i
index 3a01deb22..181c0799e 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/doxygen_translate.i
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/doxygen_translate.i
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
  *   This is printed if not
  * \endif
  * 
- * \image html testImage.bmp "Hello, world!" asd=10qwe
+ * \image html testImage.bmp "Hello, world!" width=10cm
  * 
  * <ul>
  * 
diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/java/doxygen_translate_runme.java b/Examples/test-suite/java/doxygen_translate_runme.java
index 4ec0f0468..10b5af28d 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/java/doxygen_translate_runme.java
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/java/doxygen_translate_runme.java
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ public class doxygen_translate_runme {
     		" This is printed if not}\n" +
     		" \n" +
     		" \n" +
-    		" <img src=testImage.bmp alt=\"Hello, world!\" />\n" +
+    		" <img src=testImage.bmp alt=\"Hello, world!\"/>\n" +
     		" \n" +
     		" <ul> \n" +
     		" \n" +
diff --git a/Source/DoxygenTranslator/src/DoxygenParser.cpp b/Source/DoxygenTranslator/src/DoxygenParser.cpp
index 4a96fa922..eda17a7e9 100644
--- a/Source/DoxygenTranslator/src/DoxygenParser.cpp
+++ b/Source/DoxygenTranslator/src/DoxygenParser.cpp
@@ -201,21 +201,20 @@ std::string DoxygenParser::getNextWord() {
 */
 	while (m_tokenListIt != m_tokenList.end()  &&  (m_tokenListIt->m_tokenType == PLAINSTRING)) {
 		// handle quoted strings as words
-		if (m_tokenListIt->m_tokenString[0] == '"'
-				&& m_tokenListIt->m_tokenString[m_tokenListIt->m_tokenString.size() - 1] != '"') {
+	    string token = m_tokenListIt->m_tokenString;
+		if (token == "\"") {
 
-			string word = m_tokenListIt->m_tokenString + " ";
+			string word = m_tokenListIt->m_tokenString;
 			m_tokenListIt++;
 			while (true) {
-				string nextWord = getNextWord();
+				string nextWord = getNextToken();
 				if (nextWord.empty()) { // maybe report unterminated string error
 					return word;
 				}
 				word += nextWord;
-				if (word[word.size() - 1] == '"') { // strip quotes
-					return word.substr(1, word.size() - 2);
+				if (nextWord == "\"") {
+					return word;
 				}
-				word += " ";
 			}
 		}
 
diff --git a/Source/DoxygenTranslator/src/JavaDocConverter.cpp b/Source/DoxygenTranslator/src/JavaDocConverter.cpp
index ca83e9673..cc329e706 100644
--- a/Source/DoxygenTranslator/src/JavaDocConverter.cpp
+++ b/Source/DoxygenTranslator/src/JavaDocConverter.cpp
@@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ void JavaDocConverter::fillStaticTables() {
    *
    * entities must be translated - remain in Java, something meaningfull in Python (&lt, ...)
    *
-   * - enum inside class is missing comment
+   * - OK enum inside class is missing comment
    * - crash if link in @see tag is split to two lines
    * - whitespaces in tests
    * - Python
-   * - '\' not representing doxygen commands
+   * - OK '\' not representing doxygen commands
    * - add comments also to auto-generated methods lilke equals(), delete() in Java,
    *   and methods for std::vector(), ...
    */
@@ -459,8 +459,11 @@ void JavaDocConverter::handleTagImage(DoxygenEntity& tag, std::string& translate
 
   translatedComment += "<img src=" + file;
   if (title.size())
-    translatedComment += " alt=\"" + title +"\"";
-  translatedComment += " />";
+    translatedComment += " alt=" + title;
+
+  // the size indication is supported for Latex only in Doxygen, see manual
+
+  translatedComment += "/>";
 }