I am using iReport 4.7.1. I have a report which prints out a thread of email messages. When I set the report to use 'Ignore Pagination' the report works properly (because there are no page breaks to mess up the data) When I set the report to not 'Ignore Pagination' then over each page break I lose about 2 lines of text. To replicate: 1) Have text fields in the detail band of a report set to 'Stretch with overflow.' Print large amounts of text into these so that you trigger a page break. If your page break occurs in the middle of a paragraph you will lose date over the page break. For reference here is my XML: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="MessageDetail" pageWidth="612" pageHeight="792" columnWidth="535" leftMargin="0" rightMargin="0" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20" uuid="233a270a-37b6-42c2-8dc8-378f2d82445c"><property name="ireport.scriptlethandling" value="2"/><property name="ireport.zoom" value="2.1398375295825036"/><property name="ireport.x" value="0"/><property name="ireport.y" value="0"/><import value="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.*"/><import value="java.util.*"/><import value="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.data.*"/><style name="Main" fontName="SansSerif" isBold="false" isItalic="false" isUnderline="false" isStrikeThrough="false" pdfEncoding="Cp1252" isPdfEmbedded="false"/><parameter name="messageid" class="java.lang.Long" isForPrompting="false"/><parameter name="personid" class="java.lang.Long" isForPrompting="false"/><parameter name="hidden" class="java.lang.Boolean" isForPrompting="false"/><parameter name="reportfolder" class="java.lang.String" isForPrompting="false"><defaultValueExpression><![CDATA["C:/work/cleantelligent/src/report/"]]></defaultValueExpression></parameter><parameter name="languagetypeid" class="java.lang.String" isForPrompting="false"/><parameter name="subject" class="java.lang.String" isForPrompting="false"/><parameter name="reportImageFolder" class="java.lang.String" isForPrompting="false"><defaultValueExpression><![CDATA["C:/Work/cleantelligent/global/images/report/"]]></defaultValueExpression></parameter><parameter name="isSP" class="java.lang.Boolean" isForPrompting="false"/><parameter name="truncatelength" class="java.lang.Integer" isForPrompting="false"><defaultValueExpression><![CDATA[integer.valueOf(-1)]]></defaultValueExpression></parameter><queryString><![CDATA[sELECT replace(md.message, E't', ' ') as message,md.messagedetailid,md.hidden,get_zonedate(md.date, get_user_timezone($P{personid})) as date,p.firstname||' '||p.lastname as authornameFROM messagedetail md, person pWHERE md.messageid = $P{messageid}AND md.authorid = p.personidAND (NOT md.hidden OR $P{hidden})]]></queryString><field name="message" class="java.lang.String"/><field name="messagedetailid" class="java.lang.Long"/><field name="hidden" class="java.lang.Boolean"/><field name="date" class="java.lang.String"/><field name="authorname" class="java.lang.String"/><variable name="isOddRow" class="java.lang.Boolean"><variableExpression><![CDATA[boolean.valueOf(!$V{isOddRow}.booleanValue())]]></variableExpression><initialValueExpression><![CDATA[boolean.FALSE]]></initialValueExpression></variable><variable name="isEvenRow" class="java.lang.Boolean"><variableExpression><![CDATA[boolean.valueOf(!$V{isEvenRow}.booleanValue())]]></variableExpression><initialValueExpression><![CDATA[boolean.TRUE]]></initialValueExpression></variable><columnHeader><band height="16"><printWhenExpression><![CDATA[boolean.valueOf($V{PAGE_NUMBER}.intValue() == 1)]]></printWhenExpression><image scaleImage="RetainShape" hAlign="Center" vAlign="Top" isUsingCache="false"><reportElement uuid="862d1ded-438d-4081-8c4b-651f3d40c57c" key="image-2" x="0" y="2" width="12" height="12" forecolor="#000000" backcolor="#FFFFFF"/><box><topPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#000000"/><leftPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#000000"/><bottomPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#000000"/><rightPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#FFFFFF"/></box><graphicElement fill="Solid"><pen lineWidth="0.0"/></graphicElement><imageExpression><![CDATA[$P{reportImageFolder} + "images/doc.gif"]]></imageExpression></image><textField isStretchWithOverflow="true" pattern="" isBlankWhenNull="true"><reportElement uuid="bdba68d1-2e3c-4d63-8c96-08c097c7fe54" key="textField-7" style="Main" mode="Opaque" x="14" y="0" width="537" height="15" forecolor="#FFFFFF" backcolor="#03368E"/><box><topPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#000000"/><leftPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#000000"/><bottomPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#220B8C"/><rightPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#FFFFFF"/></box><textElement textAlignment="Left" verticalAlignment="Middle"><font fontName="Serif"/><paragraph lineSpacing="Single"/></textElement><textFieldExpression><![CDATA[msg($R{report.prompt.Subject.subject}, $P{subject})]]></textFieldExpression></textField></band></columnHeader><detail><band height="30"><rectangle><reportElement uuid="131c7f5c-d88b-43cb-a827-efe6be36744c" stretchType="RelativeToBandHeight" x="14" y="0" width="537" height="6" isPrintWhenDetailOverflows="true" backcolor="#F0F0F0"><printWhenExpression><![CDATA[$V{isOddRow}]]></printWhenExpression></reportElement><graphicElement><pen lineWidth="0.0"/></graphicElement></rectangle><rectangle><reportElement uuid="126be8f0-8f93-4d31-87c4-157ea847b9a5" stretchType="RelativeToBandHeight" x="14" y="0" width="537" height="6" isPrintWhenDetailOverflows="true" backcolor="#FAFAFA"><printWhenExpression><![CDATA[$V{isEvenRow}]]></printWhenExpression></reportElement><graphicElement><pen lineWidth="0.0"/></graphicElement></rectangle><textField isStretchWithOverflow="true" pattern="" isBlankWhenNull="true"><reportElement uuid="497451a7-51b7-4277-b072-d656b476c0ed" key="textField-2" style="Main" mode="Transparent" x="17" y="0" width="362" height="13" forecolor="#000000" backcolor="#FFFFFF"/><box leftPadding="5"><topPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#000000"/><leftPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#000000"/><bottomPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#000000"/><rightPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#FFFFFF"/></box><textElement textAlignment="Left" verticalAlignment="Top"><font fontName="Serif"/><paragraph lineSpacing="Single"/></textElement><textFieldExpression><![CDATA[msg($R{report.prompt.Author.author}, $F{authorname})]]></textFieldExpression></textField><textField isStretchWithOverflow="true" pattern="" isBlankWhenNull="true"><reportElement uuid="103e0af5-9016-4fc0-8291-4046d67445ca" key="textField-4" style="Main" mode="Transparent" x="379" y="0" width="172" height="13" forecolor="#000000"/><box leftPadding="5"><topPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#000000"/><leftPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#000000"/><bottomPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#000000"/><rightPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#FFFFFF"/></box><textElement textAlignment="Left" verticalAlignment="Top"><font fontName="Serif"/><paragraph lineSpacing="Single"/></textElement><textFieldExpression><![CDATA[msg($R{report.prompt.Date.date}, DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.LONG, $P{REPORT_LOCALE}).format(DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT).parse($F{date})) + $F{date}.substring(10))]]></textFieldExpression></textField><textField isStretchWithOverflow="true"><reportElement uuid="36107c04-3729-44d5-a8a4-1ce38adfdd76" positionType="Float" mode="Transparent" x="29" y="14" width="522" height="1" forecolor="#FF0000" backcolor="#FFFFFF"/><textElement/><textFieldExpression><![CDATA[($F{hidden}.booleanValue() ? $R{report.prompt.HiddenNote.parenth.allCaps} : "")]]></textFieldExpression></textField><textField isStretchWithOverflow="true" pattern="" isBlankWhenNull="true"><reportElement uuid="ab384095-4cb0-43af-89b4-148084f8639d" key="textField" positionType="Float" mode="Transparent" x="29" y="16" width="522" height="13" isPrintWhenDetailOverflows="true" forecolor="#000000" backcolor="#FFFFFF"/><box leftPadding="5"><pen lineWidth="0.0"/><topPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#000000"/><leftPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#000000"/><bottomPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#000000"/><rightPen lineWidth="0.0" lineColor="#FFFFFF"/></box><textElement textAlignment="Left" verticalAlignment="Top"><font fontName="Serif"/><paragraph lineSpacing="Single"/></textElement><textFieldExpression><![CDATA[(($F{message}.length() > $P{truncatelength}.intValue() && $P{truncatelength}.intValue() != -1) ? $F{message}.substring(0, $P{truncatelength}.intValue()) + " " + $R{report.prompt.MessageTruncated} : $F{message})]]></textFieldExpression></textField></band></detail></jasperReport>