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I have an existing 2-page PDF file that needs to be used as the basis for a report. I know that I can use iReport to recreate the PDF as a .jrxml and use that for reporting. Is there a way to use the existing pdf as the template?

I recently researched barcode solutions for my project. I could not use barbecue because I needed it to run under JRE 1.4 and the iReport classes that render barbecue required JRE 1.5. Products I tried (free and licensed) were: JBars, a free (MPL licensed) java barcode generation tool. http://jbars.sourceforge.net/ This ran locally on my PC well, but deployed to OAS it ran very slow. Trial and error showed that performance was dependent upon the JRE it ran under. The speed was seconds under JRE 1.5 and minutes running under JRE 1.4. Barcode for Java is a barcode Java SDK to be used in J2EE, J2SE environment and Java Reporting (JasperReports). http://www.barcodelib.com This commercial product runs works very well on all platforms I have tried on. It has JasperReports support and runs under JRE 1.4.2 and later versions. This is the Singapore based company. Not open source. Requires license. IDAutomation Java Barcode Package http://www.idautomation.com/java/ All I was able to reproduce was a solid black rectangle where I wanted barcodes. I wrote a paragraph to their tech support explaining what I was trying to accomplish. The response I got back was: "Thanks for your interest in our products. Unfortunately, we do not support JasperReports". Not open source. Requires license. J4L RBarcode. http://java4less.com/barcodes/barcodes.php They have JasperReports support, and I could get to work somewhat. Had many issues with clipping, getting barcode to show in correct frame, stretching, and having text of code show under barcode. Did not work great out of the box like the barcodelib.com product. Not open source. Requires license. In the end, I found a workaround to run my OC4J container under Oracle App Server in a new JDK and am using barbecue with JRE 1.6.

lucianc Wrote: We could also consider including barcode support in the JasperReports codebase, and if Barcode4j is the best barcode library candidate we would of course choose it over Barbecue. If you think that this would benefit JasperReports, please log it as a feature request here and it will be taken into consideration. In the meantime, you would need to use your own code to render Barcode4j images in reports. Regards, Lucian LiePoe Wrote: Thank you for clarifying the situation. We had already found a way to implement it using ImageExpression(due to finding hints on the website of barcodelib.com). I don't think that JasperReports needs to have barcode support included into it's codebase, as long as a solution is readily available as an outside barcode api. I was able to get BarcodeLib.com's api to work with their easy instructions because their api supports rendering a barcode as a JRRenderable object. BUT that is a commercial api. I would much rather be able to use an open source product such as Barcode4j but I haven't figured out how to implement their api. What is needed is a good step-by-step tutorial on using "the best barcode library candidate" and intergrating it with JasperReports.

avishek Wrote: Hello EveryOne, I have solved the problem. Regards, Avishek Chakraborty Solution ? ....

Is there a way to have blanks or dummy records pushed onto a page? That is, report is sorted and grouped by FIELD1, with page break. Detail band has FIELD2 and FIELD3. There is room on page for 12 detail lines. If one group has 15 rows, then one page has 12 rows (full page), and next page has 3 rows and lots of blank space before page footer. I would like to pad the blank spaces with boxes like on a form.

What does it mean if upon starting iReport, a Message popup box states: "iReport 3.0.0 Warn is available on http://ireport.sf.net!" with an OK button. Code:iReport 3.0.0<br /><b>Warn is available on http://ireport.sf.net!