How to remove margin from first page using Jasper reports? - jasper-reports

Question

I am creating PDF report using JasperReport(jrxml). I am new in JasperReport so I have no idea for how to remove margin from first page.
My requirements is for in PDF report, first page is for cover page where I am showing company logo and company details and after cover page I am showing all required data.
please see my jrxml code, I am not showing all code just showing where I am using margin code
<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="rpt_survey_analysis" pageWidth="842" pageHeight="595" orientation="Landscape" columnWidth="802" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20" uuid="df013db5-f76e-44d3-b0df-bcbc46d93160">
</jasperReport>
in this code, I set topMargin, bottomMargin, leftMargin, rightMargin but this margin is affected to all page. But i want to affect this margin except cover page. So how can do this?

Answer 1

You need to set 0 margin on your report, you can not have different margins for different bands
From Understanding Bands
A band is as wide as the page width (right and left margins excluded).
Once you have zero margin, a few solution could be:
Position your elements in other bands to create a "fake" margin example x="20"
Use a frame component with x position at margin and add your other components to this. example
<frame>
<reportElement x="20" y="0" width="550" height="40" uuid="0d4ab012-9161-4f37-b8e0-c6ddcdd3d550"/>
<staticText>
<reportElement x="0" y="0" width="550" height="30" uuid="3dc51fb0-0bc3-46f6-9259-fb8d9fd1f884"/>
<text><![CDATA[Text at position 0 in a frame]]></text>
</staticText>
</frame>
Use a subreport with margin.
main.jrxml, no margin
<?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="NoMargins" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" whenNoDataType="AllSectionsNoDetail" columnWidth="595" leftMargin="0" rightMargin="0" topMargin="0" bottomMargin="0" isTitleNewPage="true" uuid="4e2c1a7a-cbfd-4d60-9fe7-61aea15cc321">
<property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.data.defaultdataadapter" value="One Empty Record"/>
<queryString>
<![CDATA[]]>
</queryString>
<title>
<band height="79" splitType="Stretch">
<rectangle>
<reportElement x="0" y="0" width="595" height="51" backcolor="#0015FF" uuid="e6616fe4-fed9-44aa-a8a6-2c296c6ab508">
<property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.width" value="pixel"/>
</reportElement>
</rectangle>
</band>
</title>
<summary>
<band height="53" splitType="Stretch">
<subreport>
<reportElement x="0" y="0" width="595" height="50" uuid="b654e952-f1e1-4b90-a4ca-2cf3abe9f6f4"/>
<connectionExpression><![CDATA[$P{REPORT_CONNECTION}]]></connectionExpression>
<subreportExpression><![CDATA["with margins.jasper"]]></subreportExpression>
</subreport>
</band>
</summary>
</jasperReport>
sub report, with margin
<?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="with margins" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" whenNoDataType="AllSectionsNoDetail" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20" whenResourceMissingType="Error" uuid="cccf2b18-4f7c-464c-bd9c-13dbb62af3b0">
<queryString>
<![CDATA[]]>
</queryString>
<title>
<band height="35" splitType="Stretch">
<staticText>
<reportElement x="0" y="0" width="555" height="30" uuid="66542837-c420-4e7c-a760-dd55ccff2d17">
<property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.width" value="pixel"/>
</reportElement>
<text><![CDATA[My report with margin]]></text>
</staticText>
</band>
</title>
</jasperReport>
Output
I would probably prefer solution 1 or 2 in a simple report, in more complex reports in can be an advantage to have first in separate report