Generate report to PDF problem; font or layout problem
Hi all,
I have this report that look fine.
But when I generate this report to PDF one of the column which supposed to show date information become "******" in the PDF version.
Normally I would try to modify the report by changing its font to smaller one or expanding the field to accomodate longer string.
The problem is i don't have the RDF file.
So i need to know how to make the PDF i'm generating looks the same as the the original one i'm generating the PDF from.
btw The report is made with Report Builder 6.0.8.11.3, and running on oracle database 10g.
Thank you.
Message was edited by:
Jimmy JKT
hello Gouri,
basically I just wish the PDF version of the report looks exactly like the one generated by reports runtime.
When I run the report all data is shown properly.. But the PDF version i generated from that failed to show one the column properly. Instead of showing the data the PDF version replace it with ******.
How come?
Is this the same kind of problem where the printed result differ from what it look on the sreen?
Is it adobe reader problem?
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import java.net.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
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import java.sql.*;
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import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import org.jfree.chart.ChartFactory;
import org.jfree.chart.JFreeChart;
import org.jfree.chart.plot.PlotOrientation;
import org.jfree.data.category.DefaultCategoryDataset;
import org.jfree.data.xy.*;
import org.jfree.data.xy.XYBarDataset;
import org.jfree.data.general.DefaultPieDataset;
import org.jfree.data.statistics.SimpleHistogramDataset;
import org.jfree.data.xy.XYSeries;
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import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
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import com.lowagie.text.pdf.DefaultFontMapper;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
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private final String driver = "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver";
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private final String userID = "abc";
private final String passwd = "abc";
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final int height = 200;
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