iReport - How to change character spacing in text field?

Question

Is it possible to change character spacing in text fields in iReport designer? If not, is there any other solution with text formatting in Java or in something else? Thanks

Answer 1

After years, there is still no support for this in the Jasper studio. So I did a dirty workaround. Insert tabs in between characters, e.g.

"the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".replace("","\t")

then you can control the tab size with textfield's paragraph property - Tab Stop Width

Tab Stop Width = 1px

Tab Stop Width = 10px

Just beware of "real" tab handling.