11 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:

• What's New In This Release?

• PDF Features Included in Oracle Reports

• Generating a Unicode PDF File

• Generating a Bidirectional (BiDi) PDF File

• Generating a Multibyte PDF File

• Generating a Barcode PDF File