tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8449039.post7768733971803201673..comments2024-03-28T05:59:36.577-04:00Comments on Scott Spendolini's Blog: PL/PDF 2.0Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01187435106015051061noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8449039.post-28441073354503663622009-08-19T21:14:04.772-04:002009-08-19T21:14:04.772-04:00Scott,
Happy to add to your content. I wish I...Scott,<br /><br />Happy to add to your content. I wish I'd known to use the template feature when used V1.7 this past winter. By the time I realized it was available, I'd already invested many hours, so felt like it couldn't take that much longer to hand-code it. <b>Wrong!</b> :-(Stewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05177922393895344852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8449039.post-82126123197653914372009-08-19T18:51:32.554-04:002009-08-19T18:51:32.554-04:00Stew,
Thanks for the update.
The new PDF templat...Stew,<br /><br />Thanks for the update.<br /><br />The new PDF template feature is really nice if you need to have some fixed background formatting. You can use any tool you like, save it as a PDF, and then render that PDF as a background for your documents. Has saved me a tremendous amount of time!<br /><br />- Scott -Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01187435106015051061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8449039.post-60757667105463717642009-08-19T10:45:38.400-04:002009-08-19T10:45:38.400-04:00FYI - The latest version is 2.1. Their website sa...FYI - The latest version is 2.1. Their website says it adds the following features:<br /><br />* XHTML to PDF converter package - supports most XHTML tags<br />* TTF (True Type Font) loader GUI - to replace the manual loading of True Type Fonts<br />* Doc-XML - document your PL/SQL packages by putting XML tags in the package headers. With Doc-XML the XML tags are converted to a PDF document.<br /><br />From my limited experience with it (3 reports, including 1 complex form), you can create a simple report pretty quickly. But be prepared to spend a <b>lot</b> of time creating complex reports (i.e. text wrapping, drawing graphics boxes, shading, positioning). I found some of the documentation to be concise to the point of useless.<br /><br />The tool does the job for <b>much</b> less than Oracle Business Intelligence would (though that obviously does more), but it can take a lot of time to create sophisticated reports.Stewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05177922393895344852noreply@blogger.com