Thanks Thomas. However when i see the code, i see only these lines that contribute to the output for my jasper report. It creates a file path for the masterTemplate and then compiles it and fill and then finally export the jasperPrint object, so are you talking about the JasperPrint object ? ***************************************************** String masterTemplate = ProductionUtils.createFilePath( config.getSystemProperty( SystemProperty.PATH_KEY ), JRXML_FILE ); jasperReport = JasperCompileManager.compileReport( masterTemplate ); jasperPrint = JasperFillManager.fillReport( jasperReport, parameters, new JREmptyDataSource() ); JasperExportManager.exportReportToPdfFile( jasperPrint, generateLocalFilePath() ); *****************************************************