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Eclipse RCP BIRT WebViewer PDF Broken [message #1244690]

Wed, 12 February 2014 18:55

Stephen Tague

Messages: 6
Registered: February 2014

Junior Member

I have an RCP application that uses the BIRT WebViewer to launch birt reports and all seems to be working for HTML, DOC, and XLS reports, but PDF launches the window and only shows a black icon with an X in it. If I launch my report as HTML and then export it to PDF it works, and if I right click the window --> properties and grab the URL and paste that into IE or Chrome then the report loads.

I am using BIRT 4.3.1 through Eclipse RCP Kepler. I already had problems with IE11 and viewing the other reports but that was solved by adding the following to the launch configuration of my product:

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=ie,mozilla
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.IEVersion=7000

We are (essentially) launching the report like this:

String reportPath = getValidReportPath(reportParentDir, reportName);

HashMap<String, Serializable> viewerParameters = new HashMap<String, Serializable>();
viewerParameters.put(WebViewer.SERVLET_NAME_KEY, WebViewer.VIEWER_FRAMESET);
viewerParameters.put(WebViewer.FORMAT_KEY, WebViewer.PDF);

Display display = new Display();
Shell shell = new Shell(display, SWT.SHELL_TRIM); 
shell.setText("BIRT Report: ");
shell.setLayout(new FillLayout());

Browser browser = new Browser(shell, SWT.NONE);

// Launch report
WebViewer.display(reportPath, browser, viewerParameters);

shell.open()

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Re: Eclipse RCP BIRT WebViewer PDF Broken [message #1245405 is a reply to message #1244690]

Thu, 13 February 2014 19:16

Stephen Tague

Messages: 6
Registered: February 2014

Junior Member

A bit more info on this issue:

It turns out that this issue is present in Internet Explorer 10/11 but does not manifest in IE9. I tried setting the

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.IEVersion=9000

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.IEVersion=9999

in the program arguments under the launching tab of my .product file to no avail. It seems to persist beyond this setting which indicates that either those settings don't work on IE11 or something else is not allowing the PDF through.

I tried turning off the "Enhanced Protection Mode" in the Internet Options --> Advanced tab, but the problem seems to persist.

I tried turning off the "Enable Protected Mode" in the Internet Options --> Security tab, but the problem seems to persist.

I made sure that the "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" setting was not checked in the Internet Options --> Advanced tab, but the problem seems to persist.

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