About PDF output Output Formats and Capabilities

Advanced Concepts 2-71 bMy span style=font-family:CourierHTMLspan buspan style=font-family:Times New RomanFormatsspanu With the Contains HTML Tags property set to Yes, the formatted output will look like this: My HTML Formats Example 3: Multiline text with multiple formats Assume a span of text that formats on multiple lines, such as: Line 1: iMyspan style=font-family:Courier Line 2: HTMLspanispan style=font-family:Times New Romanu Line 3: Formattinguspan. With the Contains HTML Tags property set to Yes, the formatted output will look like this: Line 1: My Line 2: HTML Line 3: Formatting. Note in the preceding example that the formats are maintained in successive lines. See also Section 4.7.5, Generating HTML or HTMLCSS output Section 4.9.2.3, Creating a boilerplate text object for HTML tags Section 4.9.2.7, Linking an HTML text object to a file Section 4.8.4, Selecting HTML tags from the database

2.8.10 About PDF output

Oracle 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, Oracle Portal, and Web browser. 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. 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 provided the following enhancements to PDF output: ■ 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. 2-72 Oracle Reports Users Guide to Building Reports Oracle Reports 11g Release 1 11.1.1 adds more enhancements to PDF output: ■ Ability to run the reports designed on Windows on Unix platforms by simply copying the font file to the fonts folder. ■ With the new font model, no misalignment will be seen in the PDF subsetted report output. For detailed information about PDF enhancements and capabilities in Oracle Reports , refer to the chapter Using PDF in Oracle Reports in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Publishing Reports to the Web with Oracle Reports Services manual. Usage notes ■ You can preview your PDF report output in your Web browser by choosing File Preview Format PDF . ■ 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 output. 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 your report installed on your machine. ■ a PDF writer. Restrictions ■ For PDF output, the bit-mapped drivers for example, PostScript for the currently selected printer are used to produce the output. See also Section 1.2.2, About Web Reports Section 2.2.4, About Web links for PDF output Section 4.7.6, Generating PDF output

2.8.11 About RTF output