A Report on Reports

Having used Jasper Reports in the past with the NetBeans(NB) plugin I though I'd try to use it to create a Resume. I found the current TIBCO JasperSoft Studio to be slightly more difficult to use than the NB plugin I used over 6 years ago. Well I suppose the reason is that it better understood my projects structure. Also because resumes have a rather nested structure, at least two levels of sub reports are needed. For several reasons including licensing, and being more developer friendly I've decided to switch to XML-FO using Apache FOP. Given this SO question it seems I'm not alone: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7355025/create-pdf-with-java