[ANN] JasperAssistant designer 1.4.1 released

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By: Peter Severin - peter_p_s

[ANN] JasperAssistant designer 1.4.1 released

2004-11-15 12:06

JasperAssistant is a visual report designer for JasperReports, a popular open-source reporting engine. It is built on top of the Eclipse's plug-in architecture and its main goal is to help you create JasperReports report definition files through an intuitive graphical interface.

 

What's new:

 

* Report export and preview wizard. Supports PDF, Excel, HTML, CSV and XML formats. (Screenshot: http://www.jasperassistant.com/shots/export.png). (Eclipse 3)

* Setup guide for JasperReports samples (http://www.jasperassistant.com/docs/guide/apa.html).

* New report page settings dialog. Includes column resize tool.

* New zoom buttons in preview viewer toolbar: Actual Size, Fit Page Width and Fit Page Size. (Screenshot: http://www.jasperassistant.com/shots/preview.png) (Eclipse 3)

* Improved database data source configuration dialog to allow up to three JAR files for JDBC driver.

 

Other minor improvements and bugfixes:

 

* Added thread context class loader suport for custom data sources.

* Added support for loading external XML entities. See Query JasperReports sample.

* Improved the loading of reports with consistency problems. Reports that are rejected

by JasperReports can be still opened and corrected in JasperAssistant.

* Added correct handling for Eclipse project cycles.

 

Download the evaluation version from: http://www.jasperassistant.com/download.html

 

Screenshots: http://www.jasperassistant.com/screenshots.html

 

For more information please visit http://www.jasperassistant.com