embed rtf text

[sravyts]

Hey,

 

We are using JasperReports to generate reports in rtf. But the resulting rtf files should contain some autotexts.

I succeeded in doing this a few times with jasperreports 1.3.0 by adding rtf code in a static text element:

<text><![CDATA[{fieldflddirty{*fldinst {AUTOTEXT ADDRESSEE.CODE \* MERGEFORMAT }}{fldrslt {ADDRESSEE.CODE}}}]]></text>

 

But the result of the exported rtf files was not always ok (sometimes it worked, and sometimes not), so I upgraded to jasperreports 2.0.0 hoping it would be solved.

But now I don't succeed in doing it anymore because all backslashes are replaced by double backslashes in the resulting rtf.

 

I don't see a way to avoid this in the code. Is this something you would allow in the future or do you see a workaround I can implement?

 

 

Wkr,

Sofie

[lucianc]

This is something we don't actually support. The fact that it (sometimes) worked in 1.3.0 was accidental.

 

If you think this would be a useful feature in JasperReports, please log as a feature request here.

 

In the meantime, you can use a custom RTF exporter that doesn't escape backslashes.

 

Regards,

Lucian

[sravyts]

I created a feature request a while ago (after the previous post in this topic), but there doesn't seem to have been any development for this.

 

Are we the only ones trying to embed rtf (or html) in reports?

Are there workarounds?