Hi, Thanks for your reply. Here is the case. I have a field, let say $F{UnusedCreditAmount} = "1234.12" I need to display it in my report as red color when -ve and black when +ve I know the code to print this field in Red. I tried many combination but it always gives error message in IReport 2.0.5 while compling Below is the error Code:he operator > is undefined for the argument type(s) Double, int value = (java.lang.String)(((new Double(((java.lang.String)field_UnusedCreditAmount.getValue()))>0) Thnaks for your help in advance