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Adding a true-type font to Reports Services while running Reports deployed on the web

Problem: A report, designed for generating PDF with the true-type font Univers in it, does not work while deployed on the web, and uses other fonts instead. Cause: there’s no Univers installed in the Reports Services on Unix. Solution: install the font and configure the Reports Service!  Sounds simple… In the process of figuring this

By |2022-06-07T20:27:19+02:00August 11th, 2009|App. Server|4 Comments

Creating PDF’s with PL/SQL and itext

There are several ways to create PDF's, on the client (e.g. PDFCreator) or on the middletier. But to create PDF's merely with packages in the database, that's another story. Even Apex uses some Java on the middletier. The product PLPDF on the other hand is a well known utility which provides this functionality (using open-source 'itext'), but.. you have to pay for this. So why not do it ourselves with itext, open-source (answer: a lot of work and knowledge of Java...).

By |2022-06-07T20:19:12+02:00June 20th, 2009|Database|2 Comments

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