DOCX exporter formatting issues

Hi,

 

Thank you for providing files so that we can easily respond to your issues:

 

1) The DOCX exporter is a grid exporter, similar to the HTML and XLS exporters. It cannot display overlapping elements. On page two, you have a third text field "COVER_PAGE" with white forecolor on white background (can't be seen with the naked eye), which overlaps your legal information, which in turn cannot display. Avoid overlapping elements when you export to DOCX, HTML, XLSX or XLSX.

 

2) The PDF is actually wrong, since the style called "Collis - Sub Heading Style" is both bold and italic. The PDF is wrong because for italic and bold fonts, you need special fonts. Please check the /demo/samples/fonts sample in JR to learn more about fonts and PDF. I suggest you make use of font extensions, one being available as a downloadable JAR together with the other JR files at Sourceforge.net.

 

3) Same reason as 1). Your line at y="803" strikes through all the page footer text fields which are at y="802", overlapping them.

 

4) Same reason as 2). PDF is wrong as the text field is indeed italic.

You need to specify pdfFontName, pdfEncoding and isPdfEmbedded attributes for the font. But I suggest you simply use font extensions, as they made these PDF-related font attributes deprecated.

 

5) Same reason as 1). Image overlaps text field behind.

 

6) This is the only true DOCX exporter problem that you have spotted. Indeed, we are not controlling the line spacing yet in the DOCX exporter. Basically, Word puts more space between two rows of text, than we do in our AWT calculations at report fill time. I suggest you create a separate tracker to track this single problem further. After you do so, we'll close this tracker here.

 

Thank you,

Teodor

 

Hi Teodor,

 

Thanks for your feedback. It seems we have some things to look at in our report templates. I have never come across this problem of overlapping elements and I don't remember reading anything about this in the documentation or javadoc; is this documented somewhere in case I need further help?

 

It will take some time to implement your suggestions in our templates, but feel free to close this issue report. I have made a separate issue report of point 6 (issue #4468).

 

Best Regards,

 

Steve Chamberlain.

Hi,

 

You did not come across the missing elements issues probably because you did not try to export to HTML or XLS yet. These grid exporter issues are explained in these FAQs here:

 

http://jasperforge.org/uploads/publish/jasperreportswebsite/trunk/faq.html?group_id=252#FAQ26

 

http://jasperforge.org/uploads/publish/jasperreportswebsite/trunk/faq.html?group_id=252#FAQ9

 

As for the PDF font issues, not sure why you did not spot the problem sooner. In any case, make sure you use font names that you ship with your reports as font extensions and you should have no problem with PDF.

 

I'm closing this.

 

Thank you,

Teodor