yes, somewhere it is stated that Jasper reports allows you to report 'virtually any data format', well how about html? nope, it would seem that you cannot use Jasper to output your html text stored in your db - i've been tearing my hair out with this one and all I got with 1.2.4 was the text complete with all it's tags (isStyledText setting made no difference), now with version 1.2.7 it's worse, all I get is: 'net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.ClobImpl@faa03e' appearing instead of the text field. If anyone has any idea how to solve this I'd be delighted.