Problem with two columns of text in BIRT 2.5 M6

Hi everyone, 
we have been recently forced to speed up BIRT upgrade (mostly because of PageBreak Inside, which is an essential feature for this project), so we are currently using BIRT 2.5 M6 version. 
When upgrading reports to the new version of BIRT I have encountered this bug. When I try to display two columns of static text (on real reports one of those columns is in Czech and the other is in Russian) I just cannot get the BIRT to display it correctly. The text is a list in HTML. 
I spent quite some time trying to do that I even tried to put each line of the text into separate rows in two separate grids - meaning I have a grid that creates two columns and in each column there is a grid with 15 rows or so and in every row there is one part of the text (from 
[*] to ), but unfortunately not even this works. 
In 2.3 version it seems to be working just fine, although even there I have one report that does this mess. 
I have created example report to post here (can't post the original) where you can check what I mean. 
 
Any help would be MUCH appreciated.

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mwilliams

Hi MagnusTide,

What is the problem with the output of the report? What are you looking for it to be like?

MagnusTide

Hi, the problem is with PDF output, when generating to HTML or using preview function, the output is correct. In PDF the text in the left column start but the text in the second column (which in the original report is the same text only in different language) starts always on the next page as if somehow the BIRT is trying to use pagebreak inside avoid for the text in second column.

mwilliams

MagnusTide, 
 
This may be something they know about and will be working on to have fixed by the time 2.5 is officially released, but please file a bug for this at <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/reportabug.php'>BIRT: Reporting Bugs and Requesting Enhancements</a> to make sure they are aware of it. Be sure to include a good description and this report design. Thanks.

MagnusTide

Thank you, will do.
By the way I have found out it is probably caused by HTML. When I put the Content type to Auto or Plain, it seems to be working just fine. This may help anyone who doesn't need to display dynamic text inside the static text like I do

Magnus

mwilliams

Magnus,

Thanks for the update.

You can also post the bug info you file in here for future reference.

MagnusTide

I created a bugzilla entry for this issue, you can find it here: 
 
<a class='bbc_url' href='https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=272904'>https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=272904</a>

mwilliams

Thanks Magnus!