Creating a bullet in iReport

Classic Servoy
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I noticed that iReport lets you indicate markup type. So I chose “Styled Text”, selected RTF as the markup style and copied in the contents on an RTF doc created by Wordpad which simply output a bullet.

That didn’t work, nor have I found any examples of using markup within iReport. If anyone has info on this I would appreciate your assistance.

TIA, Steve

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I just tried the following:
In MS-word created a rtf doc with a couple of lines with different bullets.
Saved the file.
Used copy from this document and pasted into a static text field in an iReport detail band.
Interestingly the bullets did show but some of them were altered in their specific icon.
However when I tried to execute the report (no data attached to it) I got nothing at all in the viewer.

So maybe there is some other hint in the forum for JasperReports. Have you looked there?
Tom

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Thomas Parry:
I just tried the following:
In MS-word created a rtf doc with a couple of lines with different bullets.
Saved the file.
Used copy from this document and pasted into a static text field in an iReport detail band.
Interestingly the bullets did show but some of them were altered in their specific icon.
However when I tried to execute the report (no data attached to it) I got nothing at all in the viewer.

So maybe there is some other hint in the forum for JasperReports. Have you looked there?
Tom

I tried the same with OpenOffice Writer and got no bullets showing, and neither did they appear when I executed the report.

Did you select the ‘Styled Text’ checkbox? Did you set ‘Markup’ to RTF? Could you paste the string you put in the static text field?

The jasper reports forum were also not much help. I’m getting the impression that markup is not for outputting symbols; rather it
is designed for formatting data.

Thanks, Steve

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The issue appears to specifying the proper font in the classpath within iReport to be able to get the bullet. A complication is with the rtf. I am not sure yet but perhaps specifying the font path to include the symbols you want would be the answer. Interesting - I will look into it some more. I do hope this is not re-inventing - has anyone added fonts to iReport for this purpose?
Tom