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Using PDF in Oracle Reports
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is a universal file format that preserves all
the fonts, formatting, graphics, and color, of any source document regardless of the
application and platform used to create it. Oracle Reports was one of the first report
generation tools to embrace this technology and generate quality PDF documents.
This chapter contains the following main sections:
■ PDF Features Included in Oracle Reports
This section contains information on the various PDF features supported by Oracle
Reports. This includes compression, font aliasing, font subsetting, font embedding,
accessibility, and taxonomy.
■ Resolving PDF Font Issues During Cross-Platform Deployment
This section contains information on resolving PDF font issues that occur when
you design a report on a Windows platform and deploy it on a UNIX platform.
■ Generating a Unicode PDF File
This section contains information on how to generate a PDF file using Unicode
character sets.
■ Generating a BiDi PDF File
This section contains information on how to generate a PDF file using bidirectional
(BiDi) languages such as Hebrew and Arabic.
■ Generating a Multibyte PDF File
This section contains information on how to generate a PDF file using multbyte
fonts.
■ Generating a Barcode PDF File
This section contains information on how to generate a Barcode PDF file.
6.1 PDF Features Included in Oracle Reports
Oracle Reports supports PDF 1.4 and is capable of generating high fidelity PDF reports
on all platforms. The PDF features supported by Oracle Reports include:
■ Compression
■ Font Related Features
■ Accessibility
■ Taxonomy
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