Long text problem (pdf)

[2001 JI Open Discussion]

By: Claudio Pi - claudiopi

Long text problem (pdf)

2002-12-22 07:51

I'm new to JasperReports. I'm trying to print a long text that expands multiple lines:

 

I have the following for that text:

 

<textField isStretchWithOverflow="true" pattern="" isBlankWhenNull="true" evaluationTime="Now" hyperlinkType="None" > <reportElement

mode="Transparent"

x="3"

y="3"

width="525"

height="12"

forecolor="#000000"

backcolor="#FFFFFF"

positionType="Float"

isPrintRepeatedValues="false"

isRemoveLineWhenBlank="false"

isPrintInFirstWholeBand="false"

isPrintWhenDetailOverflows="false"/>

<textElement textAlignment="Left" lineSpacing="Single">

<font fontName="" pdfFontName="Helvetica" size="8" isBold="false" isItalic="false" isUnderline="false" isPdfEmbedded ="false" pdfEncoding ="Cp1252" isStrikeThrough="false" />

</textElement>

<textFieldExpression class="java.lang.String">$F{Descr}</textFieldExpression>

</textField>

 

 

The problem is that when generating a pdf file the text cuts in a random fashion, but when generating the HTML file I can see the complete text.

 

The only way I found to have the text complete in the pdf is to increase the height attribute, but this is not a solution since I want the next element to be as close as possible to this and also because I don't know the exact lenght of the text.

 

Have someone came through this before ?

 

 

Thanks,

Claudio.

 

PS: I'm using version 0.4.4.

 

 

By: Claudio Pi - claudiopi

RE: Long text problem (pdf)

2002-12-23 05:23

If someone else has the same problem, I already found the answer:

 

It's a bug of iText api (I was using version 0.92 that's the one included with iReport 0.0.7). Upgrade to 0.96 and problem is fixed.

 

 

 

 

By: Claudio Pi - claudiopi

RE: Long text problem (pdf)

2002-12-23 05:45

If someone else has the same problem, I already found the answer:

 

It's a bug of iText api (I was using version 0.92 that's the one included with iReport 0.0.7). Upgrade to 0.96 and problem is fixed.

 

 

 

 

By: Atipon - atipon_p

RE: Long text problem (pdf)

2002-12-26 03:01

I have the same problem but the itext version 0.96 doesn't help.

I think the cause is a true type font and unicode(test with thai language). It seems like the font size in pdf is not correct as setting in jasper design.

 

With some font (e.g. tahoma.ttf) Font size in pdf is big,so it makes the long text cuts in random.

 

But another (e.g. CORDIAU.TTF), the font size in pdf is very small so I can see the whole text but the text field looks like it has some blank lines in the bottom. In both case I used stretch with overflow textfield.

Please help.

 

Thanks,

Atipon