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Hello pjamack, Thanks a lot for your reply. I know that going with jasper ist not an easy decision. Since i have to shift reporting responsibilities to the 3-5 java developers, i will have the problem that they have other duties than reporting... but this i can't change. At least they are well experienced programmers... :-) Since i'm looking also into other tools (Crystal, Birt, Cognos), are there other solutions that might fit my needs? Again the needs are only on PDF generating and pixel perfect layouting (Bank receipe etc.) Or in other words, is there a tool which is not a pain in the neck when you have very detailed reqs?

Hello jasper guys, Need some help for making decision what reporting-solution to use. environment notes: A customer (small bank) wants to replace his Reporting-Tool (ISIS Papyrus). It is only used for PDF-creation and templating. They want to change to something less proprietary and shift the knowledge/work to the JAVA-Developers. Since the PDF's that goes to customers (about 8000 bank-customer) are visually fine, they'd like to keep appearance the same. So now i've got a bunch of things the actual software can and i don't know how good Jasper is meeting those reqs. If some of the pros easily can answer some of these, that would help a lot. are whaterproof signs possible (for Example "TEST" or "Copy")? Having more Pagenumber ranges in one report? (restart numbering) Are PDF indextables possible -> Bookmarks? is the Version PDF/A supported? does a word-wrap logic exist? (allow wrap in a long word at a specific point with "-" sign) forcing words to be on the same line? (expression "a la carte" always in the same line) is inline formatting possible? (having italic word inside textelement) is dynamic font-size possible? (adjust font-size at runtime when number does not fit in table-cell) having 3 languages in one template (table-header etc.) - whats the best approach do realize that? How flexible is jasper in defining when to shift data sections to a new page? (and carry-over values?) Are there any benchmarks comparison to BIRT, Crystal etc.? (mid complex Report -> 3500 Pages) thx