Defining css styles in JasperReports

[srikanthssridhar]

Hi,

We are using iReports tool 3.7.4 for creating reports. I am applying styles to the reports by creating a .jrtx file. But reports seems to take time to load from my application. Narrowing down we found that for every text, the font and other properties of html is getting embedded in the source code. So we thought of creating a css file with the properties and use it. 

colspan="4" rowspan="2">style="font-family: 'DejaVu Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12px;">PERMANENT

I am trying to replace the with my css style. Like 

href="/_assets/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Is it possible to do this using iReports ?