jasper reports - Watermark across the page in JasperReports

Question

We are using jasperReports and iReports in our web application to generate reports.

When I explored jasper reports I was able to insert watermark inside the report easily..

However my purpose is to put the watermark String say (Michael Jackson) across the page.

Going through the properties I can only find rotation option of left/right and upside down...

Is it possible to place watermark in the report across the page..

I am using ireport to design the report...

Answer 1

Rotating text to any angle other than 90, 180 or 270 degrees is not natively supported by JasperReports. A solution would be to generate an image of the rotated text and render that on the report instead.

In the last post of this jasperforge thread, user "artduc" shares a report scriptlet for doing exactly that.