Jasperreports 4.5.0 not compatible with itext 5.1.3 (JRPdfExporter)

[Peetzer]

JRPdfExporter, JRPdfExporterContext, JRPdfExporterTagHelper, PdfTextRenderer and BreakIteratorSplitCharacter refer to com.lowagie.text, in the latest itext libraries this is changed to com.itextpdf.text.

Solution is to refer to old library like itext-2.0.6.jar (or manually patch above files).

Note, barcode4j and itext are both referenced in JasperReports. Itext alone will suffice for barcodes with latest version (also with QR barcode which barcode4j doesn't support)

Regards Peter

[lucianc]

You're right, JR requires iText 2.1.7 and doesn't work with 5.x.  The matter has been raised before, see http://jasperforge.org/projects/jasperreports/tracker/view.php?id=5183 and http://jasperforge.org/projects/jasperreports/tracker/view.php?id=5468

The problem is not changing the JR PDF exporter to use iText 5.x classes, but that iText 5.x is licensed under AGPL, which is not compatible with JR's license (LGPL).  Due to that, for the moment at least you'll need to use JR with iText 2.1.7.

I'm not familiar with iText's barcode support.  We don't have support for it in JR, please log it as a feature request if you'd like to have that.

Regards,

Lucian

[Peetzer]

Thanks Lucian, barcode4j is in Jasper Reports but development is pretty long time stopped ago. QR code support is missing in these versions but alternative is Zxing (and this is also added in later iText versions but with AGPL license)