Let's say I have a bunch of paragraphs coming from a Word file. These paragraphs have different styles applied to them (some are bold, some have smaller or bigger font size, some are italicized, different color, different font-family and so on). Is it possible to add all of these paragraphs into the same Text element in birt and apply the styles that correspond to each paragraph or do I really have to put each paragraph separately into its own Text element and then apply the style to each Text element in birt? Obviously the second approach is more tedious, I would love to find a solution similar to the first approach.
You can set the text element content as RTF and apply Paragraph Formatting Tags .
Take a look at this document for more information.
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I have a field that I'm displaying on a report that is a combination of text and codes that represent an image. Some of those icons have ascii symbols that I've used a replace formula to display them as their ascii version. For two or three of the images, I have no luck and have to display a mini picture for the representation.
The codes being sent are something like:
^he^ = ♥ ^st^ = ⭐ ^cl^ = 🍀 etc...
So for the clover leaf, there is no emoji support in my version of Crystal for clover leaves, and the ascii icon I found online for it just shows the empty square icon when an emoji isn't supported.
My workaround for this is to have a formula that converts all my icons to the appropriate ascii where supported, and to leave two blank spaces for the unsupported icons.
>stringvar gift_msg;
>gift_msg:= {DataTable1.gift_field};
>gift_msg := replace(gift_msg,"^CL^"," ");
>gift_msg := replace(gift_msg,"^HE^","♥");
>gift_msg := replace(gift_msg,"^ST^","★");
>gift_msg
I then put a suppression formula on each image that looks like this:
>mid({DataTable1.gift_field},2,4)<>"^CL^"
So I duplicated the image along the length of the field and increment the mid formula to match the field. I also set the font to Consolas so that it's fixed width to remove any surprises in spacing. My issue is that this still creates very strange spacing, and I'm almost certain there's a much easier way to do this.
One option is to use a free service such as Calligraphr.com to convert your image to a font.
Given that your image relies on several colors, the font option might not work.
Another option is to build the expression as html with image source directives where you need them. You would then need a create or use a 3rd-party UFL to convert the full expression to an image that you can load on the fly using the Graphic Location expression. At least one of the UFLs listed by Ken Hamady here provides such a function.
I have a markdown list like so:
* Question A
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Answer 3
I need to ensure that all the answers (1 - 3) appear on the same page as Question A when I convert the markdown document to docx using pandoc. How can I do this?
Use custom styles in your Markdown and then define those styles in a custom docx template.
It's important to note that Pandoc's documentation states (emphasis added):
Because pandoc’s intermediate representation of a document is less
expressive than many of the formats it converts between, one should
not expect perfect conversions between every format and every other.
Pandoc attempts to preserve the structural elements of a document, but
not formatting details...
Of course, Markdown has no concept of "pages" or "page breaks," so that is not something Pandoc can handle by default. However, Pandoc is aware of docx styles. As the documentation explains:
By default, pandoc’s docx output applies a predefined set of styles
for blocks such as paragraphs and block quotes, and uses largely
default formatting (italics, bold) for inlines. This will work for
most purposes, especially alongside a reference.docx file. However, if
you need to apply your own styles to blocks, or match a preexisting
set of styles, pandoc allows you to define custom styles for blocks
and text using divs and spans, respectively.
If you define a div or span with the attribute custom-style, pandoc
will apply your specified style to the contained elements. So, for
example using the bracketed_spans syntax,
[Get out]{custom-style="Emphatically"}, he said.
would produce a docx file with “Get out” styled with character style
Emphatically. Similarly, using the fenced_divs syntax,
Dickinson starts the poem simply:
::: {custom-style="Poetry"}
| A Bird came down the Walk---
| He did not know I saw---
:::
would style the two contained lines with the Poetry paragraph style.
If the styles are not yet in your reference.docx, they will be defined
in the output file as inheriting from normal text. If they are already
defined, pandoc will not alter the definition.
If you don't want to define the style manually, but would like it applied to every list automatically (or perhaps to every list which follows a specific pattern), you could define a custom filter which applied the style(s) to every matching element in the document.
Of course, that only adds the style names to the output. You still need to define the styles (tell Word how to display elements assigned those styles). As the documentation for the --reference-doc option explains :
For best results, the reference docx should be a modified version of a
docx file produced using pandoc. The contents of the reference docx
are ignored, but its stylesheets and document properties (including
margins, page size, header, and footer) are used in the new docx. If
no reference docx is specified on the command line, pandoc will look
for a file reference.docx in the user data directory (see --data-dir).
If this is not found either, sensible defaults will be used.
To produce a custom reference.docx, first get a copy of the default
reference.docx: pandoc --print-default-data-file reference.docx >
custom-reference.docx. Then open custom-reference.docx in Word, modify
the styles as you wish, and save the file.
Of course, when modifying the custom-reference.docx in Word, you can add your new custom style which you have used in your Markdown. As #CindyMeister points out in a comment:
Word would handle this using styles, where the Question style would
have the paragraph setting "Keep with Next". the Answer style would
have this as well. A third style, for the last entry, would NOT have
the setting activated. In addition, all three styles would have the
paragraph setting "Keep together" activated.
Finally, when using pandoc to convert your Markdown to a Word docx file, use the option --reference-doc=custom-reference.docx and your custom style definitions will be included in the generated docx file. As long as you also properly identify which elements in the Markdown document get which styles, your should have a list which doesn't get broken across a page break as long at the entire list fits on one page.
I have a D7 site with CKEDitor installed, a Text Format that allows <p> tags and has "convert line breaks into HTML" selected, and I'm importing a csv utf-8 file made from an excel speadsheet that had some cells with several "paragraphs" in them. I guess for semantic sake, these are just line breaks. I can see the text broken up into what look like paragraphs in the csv.
I want this text to be paragraphs, though. When I do the import and look at a node I created, it looks fine and I can inspect the text and see that <p>'s wrap the paragraphs. But if I go to edit the node, in my CKEditor I see that all the paragraph text in now one big paragraph. How can I get all the paragraphs to show?
In feed importer module you have the option to change the filtered html type.It filters all html tags inside the content.
We are using iTextSharp to create PDF's using a custom font and I am running into an issue with the unicode character 2120 (SM, Service Mark). The problem is the glyph is not in the custom font. Is there a way I can specify a fallback font for a field in a PDF? We tried adding a text field with Verdana so that the form had the secondary font embedded in it but that didn't seem to help.
First you need to find a font (ttf, otf,...) that has the character you need. Then you can use the FontSelector class and add the different fonts you want to use to this selector (see the FontSelectionExample). Now you can process every string:
FontSelector selector = new FontSelector();
selector.addFont(f1);
selector.addFont(f2);
Phrase ph = selector.process(some_string);
The FontSelector will return a phrase that consists of Chunks with font f1 for all the glyphs that are available in the first font, and Chunks with font f2 for the glyphs that couldn't be font in f1, but that are present in f2.
If you want the C# port of this example, please consult chapter 11.
Update
Using a FontSelector also works in the context of forms (as long as we're talking about AcroForm technology). It's really easy: you just need to add substitutions fonts to the form:
AcroFields form = stamper.getAcroFields();
form.addSubstitutionFont(bf1);
form.addSubstitutionFont(bf2);
Now the font defined in the form has preference, but if that font can't show a specific glyph, it will look at bf1, then at bf2 and so on. You can find an example demonstrating this functionality here.
Note that there's a difference between the first and the second example. In the first example we use a Font object, in the second, we use a BaseFont object.
I have a question to iReport/JasperReports experts.
I just started to learn JasperReports and iReport.
It looks promising, when you want to print some table reports based on some datasource.
But I have little different requirement.
I have templates prepared in Microsoft Word (typical agreement printout).
Mostly static text with lots of formating like:
lists,
enumerations,
bolding,
italic,
different size fonts,
margins,
indentions,
alignments
and so on
with very few dynamic fields to fill like name, surname, identity number, ...
I can`t find easy way to implement such rich text editor templates in iReport.
Is it possible?
Is it managable?
Is iReport/JasperReports suitable for such rich text editor like printouts?
Thanks
iReport really just defines the template and formatting of the data printed in the report, so you can use it to set font sizes, styles, margins, indentations, etc. If you're using things like a bulleted list or a numbered list, you may have to improvise some using subreports, but for the most part this type of setup is exactly what iReport does.