Hello Lucian, first of all thank you for your immediate reply. I hestitate a little bit calling the JasperReports behaviour a bug, since the real problem (bug :) ) is in the Acrobat Reader 8+. All works fine with Acrobat Reader 7 and earlier. I only think the chance of getting the problem solved in JasperReports is much higher than in Acrobat Reader (I addressed Adobe with the problem before I posted it to this forum - with no answer so far :(). Your suggestion to the problem looks promising to me, because we use styles in our reports. So I'd rather post a feature request than a bug. Do I use the same link for that? Regards, Edi