You cannot add com.jaspersoft.ireport.designer.formatting.actions.AlignLeftAction directly to a JMenu etc.; use org.openide.awt.Actions.connect instead
Caused: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at javax.swing.JMenuItem$MenuItemPropertyChangeListener.propertyChange(JMenuItem.java:390)
        at java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange(PropertyChangeSupport.java:333)
        at java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange(PropertyChangeSupport.java:270)
        at org.openide.util.SharedClassObject.firePropertyChange(SharedClassObject.java:454)
        at org.openide.util.actions.NodeAction.maybeFireEnabledChange(NodeAction.java:368)
        at org.openide.util.actions.NodeAction$NodesL$1.run(NodeAction.java:522)
        at org.openide.util.Mutex.doEvent(Mutex.java:1335)
        at org.openide.util.Mutex.readAccess(Mutex.java:345)
        at org.openide.util.actions.NodeAction$NodesL.forget(NodeAction.java:520)
        at org.openide.util.actions.NodeAction$NodesL.update(NodeAction.java:489)
        at org.openide.util.actions.NodeAction$NodesL.resultChanged(NodeAction.java:482)
        at org.openide.util.lookup.SimpleProxyLookup.checkLookup(SimpleProxyLookup.java:111)
        at org.openide.util.lookup.SimpleProxyLookup.access$000(SimpleProxyLookup.java:58)
        at org.openide.util.lookup.SimpleProxyLookup$ProxyResult.checkResult(SimpleProxyLookup.java:183)
        at org.openide.util.lookup.SimpleProxyLookup$ProxyResult.allInstances(SimpleProxyLookup.java:255)
        at com.jaspersoft.ireport.designer.menu.ZoomOutAction.updateStatus(ZoomOutAction.java:38)
        at com.jaspersoft.ireport.designer.menu.ZoomOutAction.resultChanged(ZoomOutAction.java:33)
        at org.openide.util.lookup.AbstractLookup.notifyListeners(AbstractLookup.java:547)
        at org.openide.util.lookup.SimpleProxyLookup$ProxyResult.collectFires(SimpleProxyLookup.java:296)
        at org.openide.util.lookup.SimpleProxyLookup$ProxyResult.resultChanged(SimpleProxyLookup.java:279)
        at org.openide.util.lookup.SimpleProxyLookup$WeakResult.resultChanged(SimpleProxyLookup.java:343)
        at org.netbeans.core.multiview.MultiViewTopComponentLookup$ExclusionResult.resultChanged(MultiViewTopComponentLookup.java:185)
        at org.openide.util.lookup.AbstractLookup.notifyListeners(AbstractLookup.java:518)
        at org.openide.util.lookup.AbstractLookup.notifyIn(AbstractLookup.java:302)
        at org.openide.util.lookup.AbstractLookup.removePairImpl(AbstractLookup.java:278)
        at org.openide.util.lookup.AbstractLookup.removePair(AbstractLookup.java:261)
        at org.openide.util.lookup.AbstractLookup$Content.removePair(AbstractLookup.java:1190)
        at org.openide.util.lookup.InstanceContent.remove(InstanceContent.java:102)
        at com.jaspersoft.ireport.designer.JrxmlVisualView.componentDeactivated(JrxmlVisualView.java:455)
        at org.netbeans.core.multiview.MultiViewPeer.peerComponentDeactivated(MultiViewPeer.java:220)
        at org.netbeans.core.multiview.MultiViewCloneableTopComponent.componentDeactivated(MultiViewCloneableTopComponent.java:129)
        at org.openide.windows.WindowManager.activateComponent(WindowManager.java:270)
        at org.netbeans.core.windows.WindowManagerImpl.notifyRegistryTopComponentActivated(WindowManagerImpl.java:1018)
        at org.netbeans.core.windows.Central.setActiveMode(Central.java:235)
        at org.netbeans.core.windows.Central.userActivatedMode(Central.java:1824)
        at org.netbeans.core.windows.view.DefaultView.userActivatedModeView(DefaultView.java:620)
        at org.netbeans.core.windows.view.ui.TabbedHandler$ActivationManager.handleActivation(TabbedHandler.java:492)
        at org.netbeans.core.windows.view.ui.TabbedHandler$ActivationManager.eventDispatched(TabbedHandler.java:439)
        at java.awt.Toolkit$SelectiveAWTEventListener.eventDispatched(Toolkit.java:2206)
        at java.awt.Toolkit$ToolkitEventMulticaster.eventDispatched(Toolkit.java:2100)
        at java.awt.Toolkit$ToolkitEventMulticaster.eventDispatched(Toolkit.java:2099)
        at java.awt.Toolkit$ToolkitEventMulticaster.eventDispatched(Toolkit.java:2099)
        at java.awt.Toolkit.notifyAWTEventListeners(Toolkit.java:2058)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:3867)
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2024)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(LightweightDispatcher.java:4212)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(LightweightDispatcher.java:3889)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(LightweightDispatcher.java:3822)
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2010)
        at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:1778)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:463)
        at org.netbeans.core.TimableEventQueue.dispatchEvent(TimableEventQueue.java:104)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:163)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:157)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:149)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)