Java Reference
In-Depth Information
Setting Styles for Text Segments
The text property modification techniques described so far apply the text properties
to a complete text element. Sometimes we want to have certain segments of a text
element use a different style. For example, we might want to emphasize a word by
making it
bold
or
italic
. JasperReports allows us to do this by using styled text.
As we have seen in previous sections, the
<textElement>
and the
<style>
element
both contain an
isStyledText
attribute. We need to set this attribute to
true
to
use styled text. When this attribute is set to
true
, the text inside a
<textField>
or
<staticText>
element is not interpreted as regular text, but as XML. The text to be
styled needs to be nested between
<style>
elements to obtain a different style from
the rest of the text. This style element contains similar attributes to before, but is not
the same as the
<style>
element discussed previously.
The following table lists all the attributes available to this
<style>
element:
Attribute
Description
Valid Values
fontName
Indicates what font to use for
the element.
A String indicating the font
to use.
size
Indicates the size of the font. An integer indicating the text
size to use.
isBold
Indicates whether the font
is bold.
true
,
false
isItalic
Indicates whether the font
is italic.
true
,
false
IsUnderline
Indicates whether the font
is underlined.
true
,
false
isStrikeThrough
Indicates whether the font
is strikethrough style.
true
,
false
pdfFontName
Indicates the name of the font
to use if the report is exported
to PDF.
Courier
,
Courier-Bold
,
Courier-BoldOblique
,
Courier-Oblique
,
Helvetica
,
Helvetica
Bold
,
Helvetica
BoldOblique
,
Helvetica
Oblique
,
Symbol
,
Times-
Roman
,
Times-Bold
,
Times-BoldItalic
,
Times-Italic
,
ZapfDingbats
pdfEncoding
Indicates the encoding to
use if the report is exported
to PDF.
A String indicating the
encoding to use when the
report is exported to PDF.
