Setting up the Pentaho Report Designer
As you can expect, the first task for our goal is to download Pentaho Report Designer from the correct website. The distribution packages are available in a couple of places: on the SourceForge website (https://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho) and directly on the official Pentaho website (http://community.pentaho.com/projects/reporting). In every case, the distribution packages are free for downloading and no fee or costs should be asked.
If you choose to download Pentaho Report Designer from the official Pentaho website, an automatic redirect will send you to the SourceForge website. To find the right distribution in the SourceForge website, follow the Report Designer folder in the Files repository. There you will find one subfolder for each version. Choose the latest available, in our case version 8.0.
In the distribution folder, you can find three packages available (let's ignore the .sum files containing checksum strings only). The first two packages...
