How to print landscape in OS X

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Re: How to print landscape in OS X

Postby mthadm » Sun Jan 19, 2014 7:19 pm

1) the driver will not be found in the list of predefined drivers, it will be loaded from the file called derby.jar. This happens automatically, you don't need to worry about that

2) we don't know for sure that the problem is the old version of java but in our experience everytime you see classloader exceptions its because of version mismatch, so this "class loader com.jaspersoft.ireport.designer.ReportClassLoader" is caused by the fact that iReport is running off old version and it doesn't know how to load newer files

3) MyMoney runs off Java 1.7 because older versions of Java such as 1.6 are deprecated on MacOS and are gradually being decommissioned
It seems that iReport is using Java 1.6 and it has problems loading files generated by newer versions of Java

iReport works fine in our environment, we don't know why. Let us try to reproduce the problem on an older Mac may be,


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Re: How to print landscape in OS X

Postby sparkiemark » Mon Jan 20, 2014 11:30 pm

Thank you...appreciate it and hope to hear from you shortly.
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Re: How to print landscape in OS X

Postby sparkiemark » Sun Jan 25, 2015 12:32 am

Gave up on this way back when, but have since installed OS-X Yosemite, which is working great! Mavericks was $h1T! A real pig, but the upgrade has turned my old "Late 2007 iMac" into a little spitfire!

But, the bad news is... I still cannot get a connection. I upgraded JasperReports to the latest to see if there was any difference (v5.6.0)

When I select iReport-->About iReport, the following is referenced in the About Popup:
Product Version: Jaspersoft iReport Designer 5.6.0
Java: 1.6.0_65; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 20.65-b04-466.1
System: Mac OS X version 10.10.1 running on x86_64; MacRoman; en_US (ireport)
Userdir: /Users/xxx.../Library/Application Support/ireport/5.6.0

Is the reference to Java: 1.6.0 bad?

I really don't get Java... I downloaded the latest Java from Oracle (1.8 something); I downloaded the latest from Apple (1.7 something)

I go to the Terminal and ...
macRiverdale:~ xxx...$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_51"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_51-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode)
macRiverdale:~ xxx...$

I go to the Java Control Panel-->Jave-->View-->User and ...
Product=1.8.0_31

...and the iReports-->About popup references Java 1.6

It appears that there are different Java's all over my iMac, but I can't figure out which is the correct one and how to destroy all the bad ones!

Please help me... I have to get some form of reporting set up hear and your iReports solution is not working.
Do you have a NON-Java solution/suggestion?
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Re: How to print landscape in OS X

Postby mthadm » Sun Jan 25, 2015 11:27 am

Hello,


We re-read the thread and perhaps we got a little carried away -

If all you are doing is changing orientation of reports from Portrait to Landscape you don't need java, all you need is to save a custom definition report file which is a text file, the steps are explained here

http://wiki.mthbuilt.com/How_to_customi ... and_height


Why are you trying to install iReport?


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Re: How to print landscape in OS X

Postby sparkiemark » Sun Jan 25, 2015 2:44 pm

It started out as such, but just flipping the report sideways only displayed everything the same - just sideways. I was hoping that more information would appear on the report (since there was more room to print), but the results were somewhat disappointing. So I turned to iReports for more flexibility and customization, which is what I am really looking for. However, the connectivity to the MoneyDB is not that simple as it appears. Should be nice compliment to your app if I can get it to work. A financial app is fairly useless unless you can run reports against it, and the canned reports that come with the app are very limited.

Any ideas... it appears the Java is set up correctly, iReports runs so Java must be ok... it is database connectivity that alludes us. Perhaps that is what we need to look at. Passwords have been disabled so access control should be easy.

What next? I would really like to get this resolved. Tax time is upon us here in Canada.
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Re: How to print landscape in OS X

Postby mthadm » Sun Jan 25, 2015 6:30 pm

Let us try to follow the steps and install iReport to a new macbook, we will update wiki page if we find new issues


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Re: How to print landscape in OS X

Postby sparkiemark » Sun Jan 25, 2015 6:52 pm

Thanks... let me know what you find. Do you want me to send you the error text again?
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Re: How to print landscape in OS X

Postby mthadm » Mon Jan 26, 2015 2:31 pm

We will update Wiki with the instructions later today, apparently iReport has been officially deprecated and JasperSoft Studio is what needs to be used


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Re: How to print landscape in OS X

Postby sparkiemark » Mon Jan 26, 2015 7:07 pm

Looking forward to it.
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Re: How to print landscape in OS X

Postby mthadm » Mon Jan 26, 2015 11:10 pm

Hello,


We updated wiki at http://wiki.mthbuilt.com/IReport_on_a_Mac with JasperSoft Studio instructions, it is not complete but you can give it a try to see if you can get a sample report compiled


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