Hi all I need to have the ability to modify the colors of my report. currently I am modifying the colors compiling it and then executing the .jasper file report with the specified colors, as you can imagine this is not ideal as the list of .jasper files is growing and all that is different is the colors of the text/lines etc. is there a way that I can modify the colors in a java program using the jasperReport or JRBaseFiller Objects for example. Or do i have to do it the hard way modify the .jrxml file compile it in my java code and then execute the report. I know the .jrxml file contains the information I need to change eg. forecolor="#000000 backcolor="#FFFFFF" key="staticText-279" surly there must be a way that i can modify these properties after the file has been complied using java. If not. how would you suggest I modify the .jrxml file safely in the code any help would really be appreciated Regards Brian Post Edited by Brian Johnson at 02/26/09 11:42