Pentaho Reporting uses Java’s built-in font support for most of its font operations. Some additional functionality exists in libfonts
, providing the report engine with additional information that is not available through Java’s standard Font
and FontMetrics
API.
In Pentaho Report Designer, fonts may be modified in multiple ways. First, all text-based elements contain font properties. These properties allow the selection of the Font-Family, Font-Size, and Font-Style. When editing these properties through the menu Format | Font…, the following screen is presented:
In addition to modifying the property, Pentaho Report Designer also provides a toolbar (shown in the following screen), where you can quickly modify the font name, size, and style.
Another way to configure fonts is using the property Styles. The following styles are available in relation to fonts:
Property name |
Description |
---|---|
family |
A string that represents the font type, for instance “Arial”. |
bold |
If set to true... |