Create a PDF or Word file from Oracle row data

Hi experts, I am clueless as how to do this. Please help.
What I would like to do is to create multiple documents from rows return from my select SQL.
Example:
select id, name from employee;
Return 2 rows:
E01, Bob
E02, John
I would like either 2 PDF or 2 WORD documents that contain E01-Bob for document#1 and E02-John for document#2 in a specific directory.
How do I do that?
Thanks,
lwt
Edited by: user13379227 on Jul 8, 2010 1:37 PM

You can buy a front-end reporting tool like Oracle BI Publisher and use it to create Word documents or PDFs, use the Word mail-merge feature with an ODBC data source to connect to your oracle database or, as Toon said, download the MS-Word document specifications from microsoft or the PDF specifications from Adobe and figure out how to programatically generate a document that meets those specifications.
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