BIRT Report Designer 4.9.0. - Chart don't work in View Report as PDF

[rankdev01]

I've installed BIRT report designer 4.9.0. traing to test some reports, and I notice that reports that contains Chart elements are not well generated in PDF format.

The browser shows the message: "An error occurred while loading the PDF document."

Windows 10 x64: birt-rcp-report-designer-4.9.0-20220315-win32.win32.x86_64.zip
Example:
chart_test.zip
Tested with JVM 11 and 18

[speckyspooky]

Hello Together,

I confirm there is an issue with the rcp-designer. I started some retests with the same configuration like above with JVM11.
The issue is located at the services of POSTSCRIPT and PDF. Both output formats cann't be processed.

Processing of PS error message:

Processing PDF - result is an empty PDF:

Both errors are reproducable with the BIRT-viewer and with the direct processing call from the designer (without designer).
The other output formats can be produced correctly.

Regression test (manual) BIRT 4.9 with the "all-in-one"-designer (JVM11):

• PDF-document created correctly
• PS-document ended in error above

Regression test (manual) BIRT 4.8 with the "all-in-one"-designer (JVM8):

• PDF-document created correctly
• PS-document created correctly

Can somebody assists with it. It seams to be an issue with the SOAP-service requests or the emitter service registration.

Best regards

[hvbtup]

I can confirm the PS issue with a (custom) 4.10 I built April 2022.

Part of the stack trace is:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: class java.util.HashMap cannot be cast to class java.util.Properties (java.util.HashMap and java.util.Properties are in module java.base of loader 'bootstrap')
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.postscript.PostscriptWriter.getFontPath(PostscriptWriter.java:741)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.postscript.PostscriptWriter.applyFont(PostscriptWriter.java:682)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.postscript.PostscriptWriter.drawString(PostscriptWriter.java:538)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.postscript.device.PostscriptPage.drawText(PostscriptPage.java:77)
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.layout.emitter.AbstractPage.drawText(AbstractPage.java:97)

[claesrosell]

Was not this fixed with #1010 ? I think so.

[hvbtup]

Yes, it seems so.

[wimjongman]

We have a release candidate available for test here:

https://download.eclipse.org/birt/downloads/drops/snapshot/

[rankdev01]

I've installed: birt-rcp-report-designer-4.10.0-20220926-win32.win32.x86_64.zip
https://download.eclipse.org/birt/downloads/drops/snapshot/birt-rcp-report-designer-4.10.0-20220926-win32.win32.x86_64.zip
Tested with JVM 18
I've done a test with the chart_test.rptdesign added in the first comment.
Still not working, same issue. In View Report as PDF the report don't work.
The browser shows the message: "An error occurred while loading the PDF document."
Not fixed yet.

[wimjongman]

I have tried your report with the latest snapshot 4.10.0-20220926

runtime (Java 17): PDF✔️ POSTSCRIPT✔️
All in one (Java 11 and Java 18): PDF✔️ POSTSCRIPT✔️
RCP report designer: PDF❌ POSTSCRIPT✔️

Is there a specific reason why you use the RCP Report Designer? It lacks a large number of features, one of which is proper logging.

[wimjongman]

This was fixed. You can get it from the Actions from the snapshot area in about an hour or so.