judodan

I'm fairly new to Jasper Reports. I'm creating some report templates with iReport and it's working pretty well. However, I'm having trouble putting a watermark in the background. I've got it displaying the referenced file, but I can't figure out how to reduce the opacity. The generated code in the JRXML file looks like this: <background><band height="572" splitType="Stretch"><image hAlign="Center" vAlign="Middle"><reportElement uuid="5b4665ab-6e30-4260-a739-cb8c456f370a" x="179" y="97" width="400" height="400"><printWhenExpression><![CDATA[$F{Watermark}!=null]]></printWhenExpression></reportElement><imageExpression class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA[$F{Watermark_File}]]></imageExpression></image></band></background> Any ideas on how to do this? Or am I going to have to read the file and transform the opacity before generating the report? Seems like this would be something somebody has done before. THanks for any help!

Hi there, I am brand new to Jasper Reports. I'm currently porting an application from .NET to Java. The application prints double elimination brackets for an athletic event. Essentially, the page is the bracket, a copyright, event name, watermark, and the athlete's (or teams) names in the proper seeded positions. I'm trying to figure out how to accomplish the same thing using JasperReports (because I want to implement other bracket systems) but I'm struggling to figure out how to do this. I don't have an exact data source (yet, I can make the program create whatever is needed) and I'm not exactly printing a "report", I'm more like taking a page template (or templates, some of the larger brackets are more than one page) and populating certain places with the data. Can someone show an example of this or give the proverbial "kick in the right direction" ? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Apologies, I posted in the wrong forum and don't see a delete function. Post Edited by judodan at 08/28/2012 01:27