Re: Reports with more than 2 destinations

From: Philip Chee <philip_at_aleytys.pc.my>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:37:09 GMT
Message-ID: <1019745429.6037snx_at_aleytys.pc.my>


In article <aa6jtg$h43$1_at_at-vie-newsmaster01.nextra.at> xgkrommer_at_fns.co.at writes:

>Excuse my ignorance, but I have absolutely no idea on Oracle Reports, but
>waded thru the 6i and 6.0 documentation and didn'tcome up with a result.

>I need Oracle Reports to produce the same reports (accounts receivable) in 2
>formats:
>a)Whatver the destination printer needs (e.g. PCL or PS)
>b)A second format that we want to archive to optical , e.g. PDF

>The reason is, that we want to avoid doing a second run on the same data.
>Someone stated that this is impossible and a second run is needed.

Break your process into several steps:

  1. Output to PDF
  2. Archive your PDF file
  3. Push your PDF file through a pdf-to-postscript or pdf-to-PCL filter. 3a. There are freeware tools that let you do this.

Philip

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