Re: Export to PDF

From: <nitelyjoy_at_ist-einmalig.de>
Date: 11 Aug 2006 14:23:40 -0700
Message-ID: <1155331419.963443.120610@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

sPh schrieb:

> DA Morgan wrote:
> > Matthias Hoys wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Are there any built-in packages in Oracle 10g Release 2 to export
> >> (generate) data as pdf ? Or is my only option to load Java classes
> >> into the db (for example iText) ?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Matthias
> >
> > None of which I am aware.
>
> There is a commercial product by a company called plpdf. It is written
> in PL/SQL and installs as a package in your database. The cost is
> reasonable IMHO (compare to Adobe Acrobat Professional). Disclaimer: I
> have not used it myself. Others with whom I correspond have.
>
> sPh

If you are a open source fan, you can use java, jdbc, xml, fop. It fits, if you want to produce thousands of stucturally identical PDFs, with different data. For "ad hoc" needs, i would prefer openoffice and odbc. Received on Fri Aug 11 2006 - 16:23:40 CDT