Path: text.usenetserver.com!out04a.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!postnews.google.com!q35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "fitzjarrell@cox.net" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools Subject: Re: printer print out different pdf print out different Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:00:48 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 121 Message-ID: <9373a098-f873-4114-b361-6ebd24bc44b9@q35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 138.32.32.166 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1223640049 10111 127.0.0.1 (10 Oct 2008 12:00:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:00:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=138.32.32.166; posting-account=KXUmygkAAABvBFmgDBe4RBLFwhTRAMZC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; Embedded Web Browser from: http://bsalsa.com/; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.oracle.tools:182532 X-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:00:49 EDT (text.usenetserver.com) On Oct 10, 2:48=A0am, "K." wrote: > Uzytkownik "fitzjarr...@cox.net" napisal w wiadomoscine= ws:d2eba221-5c87-4993-a015-0ba9b0191918@a2g2000prm.googlegroups.com... > Comments embedded. > On Oct 9, 7:56 am, "K." wrote: > > > > > > > Hello! > > > I have a strange problem which look like this.... > > I print out the report into the screen (in Oracle Reports (Oracle 9.0)) > > and > > then > > I print it out on the paper (this is: into the printer). > > I also print out the report into the screen and then I saves it into th= e > > pdf > > file. > > > My client told me that report printed out into the pdf file is OK, but > > report > > printed out into the paper & screen (this is into printer) is NOT OK. > > I`ve checked and my client is right, because report printed out on the > > paper > > and screen contains different values than report printed out into the p= df > > file. > > > Can you tell me what problem causes? > > Why the same report created from the form with the same parameters sent > > from > > form > > into the report is different while it is saving into the PDF file and > > while > > it is printing out > > on the screen and paper. > > Who could say? =A0You don't provide enough information to make that > determination. > > > Can you write me whether report generated on the screen and then saving > > into > > the pdf > > file is analysing database data once more or it creates pdf file basing= on > > the report which > > I see on the screen without double database data analysing? > > My GUESS is you had to run the report twice, once for the laser > printer and once for the pdf document. =A0And even though the report is > generated with the same parameters the underlying data may have > changed between runs. =A0Of course you don't give us that information. > When you finally provide that piece of the puzzle an answer may be > forthcoming. > > > Thank you in advance > > HC > > . > > David Fitzjarrell > > Hello again! > > It is rather impossible that underlying data may have changed between run= s, > because my client told me that he has got the same situation when he runs > report twice. He added that this situation occurs randomly (not always). > Sometimes > report values are OK and equal both on screen report and pdf, and sometim= es > report values are not equal between screen report and pdf. > > This example took place while running report on client database: > First run: > > Screen: > Account Value > XXX =A0 =A0 =A01000 > then PDF generating: > Account Value > XXX =A0 =A0 =A02000 > > Second run (values are equal): > > Account =A0Value > XXX =A0 =A0 =A01000 > then PDF generating: > Account =A0Value > XXX =A0 =A0 =A0 1000 > > Second run (values are not equal): > Account =A0Value > XXX =A0 =A0 =A01000 > then PDF generating: > Account =A0Value > XXX =A0 =A0 =A0 2000 > > Can you tell me where the problem is in? > > Thank you > H.C.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Youv'e been informed in another post what the likely cause of this could be: "You may have been fooled by the Application Server Cache or Browser Cache. Either the screen/printer output or the PDF output comes from the cache. I bet it's the PDF. Put a date of printing (timestamp) in your report header to check that. " I've repeated it here since you obviously missed it earlier. David Fitzjarrell