Comments on: AS_PDF, generating a PDF-document with some plsql

By: Anton Scheffer

Anton Scheffer — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:47:51 +0000

@Franco
As I said, “Not complete backward compatible”. I had no need for that procedure, so I didn’t included it.
But I think you can add the old show_pdf procedure yourself.

By: Franco G.

Franco G. — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:57:24 +0000

Anton

thank you very much for your quick reply and for having confirmed that the solution could be fine.
I download the new version of as_pdf but i didn’t see the show_pdf function. Why?
Franco

By: Anton Scheffer

Anton Scheffer — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:33:14 +0000

@Franco G.
Nothing wrong with your version. It does not do exactly the same as my version, but if it works for you, use it!

By: Franco G.

Franco G. — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:29:17 +0000

Hi Anton
First of all tank you very much for your usefull work.
I had a problem with some browser that not recongnized the pdf file.
I solved the problem with a little modification to a “show”Â procedure and i’d like to know your opinion about it.
—- original “show” function
procedure show_pdf
is
begin
finish_pdf;
owa_util.mime_header( ‘application/pdf’, false );
htp.print( ‘Content-Length: ‘ || dbms_lob.getlength( pdf_doc ) );
htp.print( ‘Content-disposition: inline’ );
htp.print( ‘Content-Description: Generated by as_xslfo2pdf’ );
owa_util.http_header_close;
wpg_docload.download_file( pdf_doc );
dbms_lob.freetemporary( pdf_doc );
end;
—— modified “show” function
procedure show_pdf (p_name in varchar2)
is
begin
finish_pdf;
owa_util.mime_header( ‘application/pdf’, false );
htp.print( ‘Content-Length: ‘ || dbms_lob.getlength( pdf_doc ) );
– modified and added line
htp.print( ‘Content-disposition: attachment; filename=”‘||p_name||’”‘ );
htp.print( ‘Content-type: application/pdf’ );
—-
htp.print( ‘Content-Description: Generated by as_xslfo2pdf’ );
owa_util.http_header_close;
wpg_docload.download_file( pdf_doc );
dbms_lob.freetemporary( pdf_doc );
end;
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By: Anton Scheffer

Anton Scheffer — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:41:32 +0000

@Mike
Not that I know of

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:42:59 +0000

Hi Anton,
Just came across the as_pdf Â package. Â Thanks very much for sharing.
Is there possibly a simply was to convert an html page to a PDF without re coding and formatting each line?
Mike
Â

By: Anton Scheffer

Anton Scheffer — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:21:51 +0000

@Mohammed Haris
No, I haven’t any examples for that version available.

By: Mohammed Haris

Mohammed Haris — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:03:28 +0000

Anton,
Do you have any code for prototyping this new version, like you had in your previous one ?
Â

By: Anton Scheffer

Anton Scheffer — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:09:10 +0000

The write procedure isn’t meant for outputting text outside the page margins. You have to use put_txt for that.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:32:46 +0000

Anton,
Thank you this has resolved this problem.Â Unfortunately now I am looking at one that makes no sense to me. Instead of the following lines ending up generating 1 line in the PDF they generate multiple lines on different pages.Â The intent is that I output the header and footer on each page and then start outputting the body.Â Any ideas on what is causing this?
– this is the page header
as_pdf2a.write(‘Output by XYZ’,p_y=>500, p_x=>350); –, p_alignment=> ‘center’);
– This is the page footer
as_pdf2a.write(‘Date: ‘||TO_CHAR(pi_as_of,’dd-MON-rr HH:MI AM’),p_y=>40, p_x=>30, p_alignment=> ‘left’);
as_pdf2a.set_font(p_family=> ‘TIMES’, p_style=> ‘N’, p_fontsize_pt=> 18);
as_pdf2a.write(‘Output by XYZ’,p_y=>40, p_x=>350, p_alignment=> ‘center’);
as_pdf2a.set_font(p_family=> ‘TIMES’, p_style=> ‘N’, p_fontsize_pt=> 10);
as_pdf2a.write(‘Page: ‘||pi_page_nbr,p_y=>40, p_x=>740, p_alignment=> ‘right’);