Styled Text in JasperReports

You can have formatted text inside a text field by setting its isStyledText property to true, then using JasperReports style tags to format the text. Here is an example of how bold text can be achieved:

<style isBold="true" pdfFontName="Helvetica-Bold">

More examples are at

http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/samples/

Under the 'styled text' example.