Re: Question on Oracle Report

"Malcolm Dew-Jones" <yf110_at_vtn1.victoria.tc.ca> wrote in message news:42823470_at_news.victoria.tc.ca...
> Pat (pat_at_microsoft.com) wrote:
> : Hi all,
>
> : I have a question on Oracle Report 6.
>
> : When report A generate an output PDF file to harddisk, the entire PDF
(say
> : 5MB) can be written to harddisk at once. That means when I see the PDF
in
> : my harddisk, the report was already finished and the PDF file size is
5MB.
> : But in report B, the output PDF just incremented in the harddisk before
the
> : entire report is finished. That mean I can see in my harddisk the PDF
file
> : size is increasing gradually.
>
> : Is there any report parameter to control this behaviour?
>
> No idea, but the report itself may make a difference, depending on the
> logic it uses.
>
> Some reports can be generated and displayed one page at a time. Perhaps
> when saved to disk you would see the pdf file getting larger one chunk at
> a time.
>
> Some reports need to scan through all the data before any pages can be
> displayed. In that case the entire file would likely be written at the
> end of the process and appear to turn up on disk all at once (so to
> speak).
>
>
> $0.04
>
>
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>
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I also suspect this because the one which write to disk continuously is something like, say for 50 pages, it writes 1, 2, 3,....10, then 1, 2, 3,...10 5 times. Just wonder if after write to disk for every 10 pages and have a way to control or not. Received on Thu May 12 2005 - 17:59:53 CEST