The text in my static text box has a special character like (%,/,#) in my case which when generated in pdf is missing and sometimes the special character is visible but text after that is missing. below is my static text tags. <staticText> <reportElement mode="Opaque" x="769" y="0" width="41" height="30" backcolor="#BDBDBD" uuid="b8001e8d-b720-46a3-a117-293a5a881ad4"/> <box> <bottomPen lineWidth="1.0"/> </box> <textElement textAlignment="Center" markup="html"> <font fontName="SansSerif" isBold="true"/> </textElement> <text><![CDATA[Monthly % Goal]]></text> </staticText> <staticText> <reportElement x="200" y="53" width="160" height="20" uuid="f7d2a9f7-53a6-46ce-8498-696e5a84381a"/> <textElement textAlignment="Left" verticalAlignment="Middle" markup="html"> <font fontName="SansSerif" isBold="true"/> </textElement> <text><![CDATA[Inspection Required / Frequency]]</text></staticText>