| Printing to PDF in older versions of oracle [message #98501] |
Sun, 05 December 2004 11:12  |
Ethan
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does anyone know to to setup a pdf writer in oracle 10.7? We have one computer guy(not a dba) and he is under the impression that to add a printer in our version or oracle, it must have an IP address, which the pdf writer doesn't(the comp that has the software does, but if you give orace that ip address, what will casue the pdf writer to run?
My main goal is to pdf reports and orders, that have special tmepelts, so exporting is not an option
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| Re: Printing to PDF in older versions of oracle [message #98503 is a reply to message #98501] |
Mon, 06 December 2004 09:18  |
andrew again
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There are several Windows based tools where you put a file into an IN directory, it gets converted to PDF in an OUT directory. If your Oracle is on Unix, then you can write your output file into an NFS mounted directory. The windows IN directory maps to this location. The problem seems to be that when you they to pring a non-standard size which goes out of bounds, then the Windows machine gets a confirmation dialog box (from the PDF print driver) which hangs the whole queue until it's acknowledged by a user...
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| Re: Printing to PDF in older versions of oracle [message #98537 is a reply to message #98504] |
Wed, 22 December 2004 04:31 |
Ethan
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hmmm...You did misunderstnad, but i am not already creating the PDF....I would like to create a pdf from oracel 10.7 Right now, from oracle, we can only print to a real physical printer that has an IP address. Our It guy does not know how to setup a PDFwriter in oracle, so that we can print straight to PDF from oracle......
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| Re: Printing to PDF in older versions of oracle [message #98540 is a reply to message #98538] |
Wed, 22 December 2004 11:18 |
Ethan
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I showed your reply to my IT guy, and he said that means nothing to him...he's not a "unix guy"(your reply went over his head), so would it be possible for you to give detailed intrusctions on how to setup a pdf writer as a rpinter?
Thanx so much for your help
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| Re: Printing to PDF in older versions of oracle [message #98542 is a reply to message #98541] |
Wed, 22 December 2004 19:28 |
Ethan
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searching for that on goodle didn't really help.....I wish ther was some way to asign an IP address to a pdf writer.....or could some sort of macro be written, where you send the data to a certain computer, and it automatically send the data to the pdf writer on it hard drive....
I need oracle and unix for dummies....I'm a mechanical engineer, trying to solve a logistics issue.....wish i had more knowledge of networks..............
Thanx for all your help
Have a happy holiday
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| Re: Printing to PDF in older versions of oracle [message #98593 is a reply to message #98580] |
Mon, 24 January 2005 07:43 |
Tim
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You then need to define a Printer in Oracle that has this PDF Style enabled.
This Style is a place-holder only. It really does not do anything that I know of.
For my company, we then define a PDF driver that then uses Acrobat for UNIX by eay of scripting to convert to Postscript and then print.
cat $PROFILES$.FILENAME | /opt/Acrobat5/bin/acroread -toPostScript -shrink | lp -c -onobanner -d $PROFILES$.PRINTER -n $PROFILES$.CONC_COPIES $PROFILES$.FILENAME
Hope this helps.
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| Re: Printing to PDF in older versions of oracle [message #98594 is a reply to message #98593] |
Mon, 24 January 2005 08:53 |
Ethan
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I am told by my IT guy that we can only define a printer in oracel that has an IP addres, which a PDF writer does not have....Do you know how to setup a pritner without an IP adress in such an old version of orcle?(one so old that oracle no longer supports it, and hasn't for years)
Thanx
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| Re: Printing to PDF in older versions of oracle [message #98595 is a reply to message #98594] |
Mon, 24 January 2005 10:29 |
Tim
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ONly way around it is to set-up a printer on the network and on the UNIX box.
Then create it in Oracle.
If you are never going to print a hardcopy directly from Oracle adn Unix, then just remove the printer from the network.
Oracle will still have it connected adn UNIX will still have it defined. As long as you set Conc. Request copies to zero, you should be OK.
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| Re: Printing to PDF in older versions of oracle [message #98597 is a reply to message #98596] |
Mon, 24 January 2005 10:59 |
Tim
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You do NOT set-up a PDF writer.
Per my prior message, you configure Reports to output PDF format. Oracle Reports is its own writer.
The file Reports generates then needs to be put on the file system and then if the printer driver is set-up to do so, then print the PDF. Only way to do this is to convert to Postscipt.
If you are not printing a hardcopy, the only reason you are setting up a printer is Oracle requires a printer to print to even if you are setting copies to zero and printing nothing.
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