Re: convert into pdf

On 30/09/05, raja rao <raja4list_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
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> Is there a way to convert oracle data (data in the oracle database) into pdf
> format file ?

Yes, so lpng as the reporting tool (Oracle Reports, Oracle Discoverer, Business Objects, Crystal Reports &c) you're using has a print function. There are a number of packages, most of which act as printer drivers and are only available for Windows, which will output a PDF file instead of printed pages.

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> or
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> also is there a way to covert data from solaris (os) to a pdf format ?
>

If you can get the data into an XML compliant format I'm told that converting it to PDF is just a case of creatign the right XSLT script and having an XML parser.

At the most primitive I suppose you could use OpenOffice.org or StarOffice. Get the data into the Writer, wordprocessing, (or Calc, spreadsheet, or even Impress, presentation) app somehow (import the file or Copy+Paste from SQL*Plus) then use the export to PDF function.

Stephen

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