Rendering problem with carefully placed grid

BIRT 2.5.0.

Please see the attached report which mimics something we are trying to do. The intent is to have the colored column down the right side of the page with the image in the middle overlapping the colored area. There are two rendering problems. In HTML there is a white space below the lower right corner of the image (the image itself has a white line at the bottom but this is surrounded by the border and is not a problem). In PDF there are thin lines extending horizontally from the top and bottom of the image all the way to the right edge, as if the colored background were disjointed. The size of the image, rows, and columns have all been carefully set to match, and all padding/margins have been removed (I think). Is this a rendering bug? Is there any way to work around it? I do a lot of stuff with carefully aligned grids like this and BIRT seems frequently to have problems with the rendering. Thanks for any suggestions.

P.S. I just printed one of the PDFs and the horizontal lines/defects don't show on paper. However, they are visible on screen.

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mwilliams

Hi kevinroll,

Is this the most recent stable build of 2.5 you're using?

kevinroll

I believe so... this morning I downloaded Eclipse 2.5RC3 and then used the "Install New Software" wizard to get the latest BIRT. It says I have BIRT Framework 2.5.0.v20090603-9ODS6GD6DotWJgPXFaYge .

mwilliams

kevinroll,

You can get the white space to all disappear by setting the height of the middle grid cell to the exact same as the image. However, I do notice that the bottom border of the grid doesn't show. It's like there is extra space added to the bottom of the image element that shouldn't be there. I also don't see any thin lines in the PDF causing the color to look disjointed. Can you attach a pdf copy from when you run the report so that I can see what you mean.