If You are looking for something that works like soft return in MS Word (Shift+Enter) and want to achive textAlignment="Justified"
in textElement
no matter, where a break line is the trick below may be helpfull.
pdf fragment example
In TextField You can
- set
textAlignment="Justified"
of textElement
- set 2
Tab Stops
: "left" at 0px, "right" at the full width of textField
- use
\t
(or 	
if you prefer using markup="html"
) in the place where You want to break line. If You want to justify the last or single line use \t\t
(or 		
)
<textField>
<reportElement x="0" y="270" width="540" height="21">
</reportElement>
<textElement textAlignment="Justified">
<paragraph>
<tabStop position="0" alignment="Left"/>
<tabStop position="540" alignment="Right"/>
</paragraph>
</textElement>
<textFieldExpression><![CDATA["Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet\t\t"]]></textFieldExpression>
</textField>
and the whole example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Created with Jaspersoft Studio version 6.18.1.final using JasperReports Library version 6.18.1-9d75d1969e774d4f179fb3be8401e98a0e6d1611 -->
<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="SoftReturn" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20" uuid="e0df1bfc-6397-4160-9999-538487a658d0">
<property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.data.defaultdataadapter" value="One Empty Record"/>
<queryString>
<![CDATA[]]>
</queryString>
<detail>
<band height="600" splitType="Stretch">
<property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.height" value="px"/>
<textField>
<reportElement x="0" y="70" width="260" height="150" uuid="626378db-b76e-44b4-b768-e1996f005058">
<property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.height" value="px"/>
<property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.x" value="px"/>
</reportElement>
<box>
<pen lineWidth="0.25"/>
</box>
<textElement textAlignment="Justified">
<paragraph>
<tabStop position="0" alignment="Left"/>
<tabStop position="260" alignment="Right"/>
</paragraph>
</textElement>
<textFieldExpression><![CDATA["Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua." + "\n\n\n" + "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,\tconsectetur adipiscing elit,\tsed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et\tdolore magna aliqua.\t\t"]]></textFieldExpression>
</textField>
<textField>
<reportElement x="280" y="70" width="260" height="150" uuid="626378db-b76e-44b4-b768-e1996f005058"/>
<box>
<pen lineWidth="0.25"/>
</box>
<textElement textAlignment="Justified" markup="html">
<paragraph>
<tabStop position="0" alignment="Left"/>
<tabStop position="260" alignment="Right"/>
</paragraph>
</textElement>
<textFieldExpression><![CDATA["Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua." + "<br><br><br>" + "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,&#09;consectetur adipiscing elit,&#09;tsed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et&#09;dolore magna aliqua.&#09;&#09;"]]></textFieldExpression>
</textField>
<textField>
<reportElement x="0" y="238" width="540" height="21" uuid="cf7e3f9c-b381-4ee4-9e9a-4b3b2cd4e0e7">
<property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.x" value="px"/>
</reportElement>
<box>
<pen lineWidth="0.25"/>
</box>
<textElement textAlignment="Justified">
<paragraph>
<tabStop position="0" alignment="Left"/>
<tabStop position="540" alignment="Right"/>
</paragraph>
</textElement>
<textFieldExpression><![CDATA["Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet\t\t"]]></textFieldExpression>
</textField>
<textField>
<reportElement x="0" y="270" width="540" height="21" uuid="658101ab-6f3b-499d-a717-0e6db6050986">
<property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.unit.x" value="px"/>
</reportElement>
<box>
<pen lineWidth="0.25"/>
</box>
<textElement textAlignment="Justified" markup="html">
<paragraph>
<tabStop position="0" alignment="Left"/>
<tabStop position="540" alignment="Right"/>
</paragraph>
</textElement>
<textFieldExpression><![CDATA["Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet&#09;&#09;"]]></textFieldExpression>
</textField>
</band>
</detail>
</jasperReport>