Reports Builder can generate report output to PDF files, containing the formatted data and all objects. When you generate your report output to a PDF file, you can distribute the output to any PDF destination, including e-mail, printer, OracleAS Portal, and Web browser.
With font subsetting, the PDF file includes the font information needed to render the PDF, regardless of the availability of that font on the machine used to view the report. PDF font subsetting works for single byte, multibyte, and Unicode fonts, and is the preferred method of creating multibyte reports.
Oracle Reports 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) includes PDF font subsetting enhancements and improved font support to provide:
Direct subsetting of True Type fonts (as a Type0 font), no longer converting to Type3 fonts. As a result, PDF output is clearer, smoother, searchable, and accessible.
Improved True Type Collection (TTC) support, allowing you to use the zero-based index to indicate the specific TTC font file to pick up. In prior releases, Oracle Reports picked up the first font file in the True Type Collection (TTC).
For detailed information about PDF output enhancements and capabilities in
Oracle Reports, which include compression, font aliasing, font subsetting, font
embedding, and accessibility tags, refer to the chapter "Using PDF in Oracle
Reports" in the Oracle Application Server Reports Services Publishing
Reports to the Web manual, available on the Oracle
Technology Network Oracle Reports Documentation page (http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/reports.html
).
You can preview your PDF report output in your Web browser by choosing
FilePreview Format
PDF.
Document taxonomy (classification) for PDF output is provided by the report properties Title, Author, Subject, and Keywords, which assist in cataloging and searching a report document.
If you are building a multibyte report for multibyte languages, such as Chinese or Japanese, and you need to alias the font in PDF output, you need the CID fonts named within the Acrobat 4.0 packs. Otherwise, you do not need the CID fonts in the Acrobat 4.0 packs.
Oracle Reports does not support Windows UDC for PDF ouput. For the user-defined characters to be printed or rendered, all the glyphs must be within a single TTF or TTC file.
Graphics and text can be overlapped.
The foreground color of the object will be used as the fill color (regardless of a specified pattern).
You can modify the PDF file, if you have:
the fonts used in the report installed on your machine.
a PDF writer.
For PDF output, the bit-mapped drivers (for example, PostScript) for the currently selected printer are used to produce the output.
About Web links for PDF output
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