How to embed and display an SVG image in iReport
ireport, jasper-reports, pdf, svg
Solution
I wanted to embed a SVG text in my report, and this topic helped me succeed. I am using Jaspersoft Studio with full support for JasperReports 5.5.0. Here is how i did :
- Create a image element
- Choose Custom expression and let expression empty
- Modify JRXML source: add a tag imageExpression in the tag image
<image>
<reportElement x="0" y="60" width="50" height="50" uuid="c0d0856e-0bb1-4634-b8b0- 6f7ace0e3ff3"/>
<imageExpression><![CDATA[net.sf.jasperreports.renderers.BatikRenderer.getInstanceFromText("<svg:svg xmlns:svg=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" version=\"1.0\" width=\"88\" height=\"21\" id=\"svg\"><svg:g id=\"layer1\"><svg:path id=\"path1\" d=\"M 61.799149,2.0342178 L 67.119461,2.0342178 L 67.119461,19.213905 L 61.799149,19.213905 L 61.799149,2.0342178 z\" style=\"text-anchor:start;fill:#FF0000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-width:1px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1;\" /></svg:g> </svg:svg>")]]></imageExpression>
</image>
So, i use the method getInstanceFromText of BatikRenderer. Do not forget to protect double quotes in your SVG text.
Problem
I am using iReport 4.5.0, and want to embed an SVG image to generate a PDF. When using iReport's preview option to run the report, the image won't get rendered to the PDF (i.e. there's an empty space where the image is supposed to be). I do not see any exceptions in the logs during execution, what's going on? Here's the image tag code snippet: ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="reportSVGTest" language="groovy" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20"> <property name="ireport.zoom" value="1.0"/> <property name="ireport.x" value="0"/> <property name="ireport.y" value="0"/> <background> <band splitType="Stretch"/> </background> <title> <band height="50"> <staticText> <reportElement x="81" y="13" width="100" height="20"/> <textElement/> <text><![CDATA[Hello]]></text> </staticText> </band> </title> <detail> <band height="443" splitType="Stretch"> <image hAlign="Center" vAlign="Middle" isUsingCache="true" isLazy="true"> <reportElement x="12" y="17" width="512" height="403"/> <imageExpression class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRRenderable"> <![CDATA[ net.sf.jasperreports.renderers.BatikRenderer.getInstance( new java.io.File("C:\\Users\\akshayd\\Desktop\\polygons1.svg")) ]]> </imageExpression> </image> </band> </detail> </jasperReport> ```