Comments on: Generating a PDF-document with some plsql: as_pdf_mini => as_pdf3

By: Anton Scheffer

Anton Scheffer — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:59:16 +0000

Try escaping the quote, i.e. put two quotes in it.

By: francesco.patea@bticino.it

francesco.patea@bticino.it — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:31:30 +0000

HI Anton, Thanks a lot, now it’w work fine!
So I’ve a question for you; if the variable v_test contain a sting with quota charater the entire block is not displayed because the syntax is in error.
Have you an idea to solve the problem? Now I user to replace comma char with blank char..
thanks a lot , have a good day
Francesco.

Ps. merry christmas

By: Anton Scheffer

Anton Scheffer — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:30:33 +0000

That’s because you use q’~ to start a string

as_pdf3.set_page_proc( q’~
begin
as_pdf3.set_font( ‘helvetica’, 8 );
as_pdf3.put_txt( 10, 15, ‘Page #PAGE_NR# of “PAGE_COUNT#’ );
as_pdf3.set_font( ‘helvetica’, 12 );
as_pdf3.put_txt( 350, 15, ‘This is a footer text’ );
as_pdf3.set_font( ‘helvetica’, ‘B’, 15 );
as_pdf3.put_txt( 200, 780, ‘This is a header text’ );
as_pdf3.put_txt( 200, 750, ~‘ || v_test| | q’~’ );
end;~’ );

By: francesco.patea@bticino.it

francesco.patea@bticino.it — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:25:27 +0000

I Anton, thanks for your reply. I Improve Your suggest but doesn’t work; in the page I see the string || v_test || . Can You Help me to found the error? I attacch my procedure
thanks a lot
Francesco

CREATE OR REPLACE procedure prova
as
v_test varchar2(20) := ‘DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD’;
bbb blob;
begin
as_pdf3.init();
as_pdf3.set_page_proc( q’~
begin
as_pdf3.set_font( ‘helvetica’, 8 );
as_pdf3.put_txt( 10, 15, ‘Page #PAGE_NR# of “PAGE_COUNT#’ );
as_pdf3.set_font( ‘helvetica’, 12 );
as_pdf3.put_txt( 350, 15, ‘This is a footer text’ );
as_pdf3.set_font( ‘helvetica’, ‘B’, 15 );
as_pdf3.put_txt( 200, 780, ‘This is a header text’ );
as_pdf3.put_txt( 200, 750, ‘||v_test||’ );
end;~’ );
as_pdf3.save_pdf (null,’prova.pdf’);
end;

By: Anton Scheffer

Anton Scheffer — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:48:01 +0000

This works for me:
declare
t_query varchar2(1000);
t_rc sys_refcursor;
begin
as_pdf3.init;
t_query := ‘select 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 from dual’;
as_pdf3.query2table( t_query );
open t_rc for t_query;
as_pdf3.refcursor2table( t_rc, as_pdf3.tp_col_widths( 100, 40, 50, 120, 110 ) );
as_pdf3.save_pdf;
end;

By: DarkZoro79

DarkZoro79 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:52:17 +0000

Anton I hope you get my comment this time. I’m trying to post this 3 times already and nothing.

I want to be able to set the width of all the different columns that I use on my query (report) but so far I can’t make it work.
This is what I’m using, so can you please let me know an example on how I need to make this happen?
t_query := ‘select c1, c2, c3, c4, c5, c6, c7 from c_table’; as_pdf3.query2table( t_query );
open t_rc for t_query;
as_pdf3.refcursor2table( t_rc, as_pdf3.tp_col_widths(100, 40, 50, 120, 110, 60, 50));
Thanks

By: Anton Scheffer

Anton Scheffer — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:19:05 +0000

@francesco.patea@bticino.it
That’s because you’re put_txt is part of the input parameter for as_pdf3.set_page_proc, it’s just part of a string.
Use …. as_pdf3.put_txt( 350, 15, ‘ || v_test || ‘ ); ……..

By: francesco.patea@bticino.it

francesco.patea@bticino.it — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:25:55 +0000

Hi Anton, I use last version of your package, but now I try to pass at AS_PDF3. So I’ve a problem during the spcification of set_page_proc. In this section I need to insert a variable defined in pl/sql block , but If I insert the variable the result is not draw

declare
v_test varchar2(20) := ‘header info’;
begin
as_pdf3.init();
as_pdf3.set_page_proc( q’~
begin
as_pdf3.set_font( ‘helvetica’, 8 );
as_pdf3.put_txt( 10, 15, ‘Page #PAGE_NR# of “PAGE_COUNT#’ );
as_pdf3.set_font( ‘helvetica’, 12 );
as_pdf3.put_txt( 350, 15, v_test );
end;~’ );
end;

thanks a lot
Francesco.

By: Anton Scheffer

Anton Scheffer — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:37:13 +0000

@Ruben
“the width of all the columns is fixed”: Not true
“fix that problem”: It’s no problem
“I don’t want to have a huge empty space”: Then why don’t you use the parameter p_widths?

By: Ruben

Ruben — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:58:59 +0000

Hi there Anton,
I have a quick question. I have created a pdf file and it works great but I noticed that the width of all the columns is fixed.
Can you let me know how to fix that problem so my query can have a report with different size columns? I don’t want to have a huge empty space for just a column with a 1 (number)
Thanks in advance Ruben