Displaying PDF & PowerPoint files

How can I display PDF files on a TV that only has composite? I already bought the cables for connecting my iPhone 4s to my TV but I have not yet found a way to display PowerPoint, PDF, or other files on the TV screen. Photos and videos work fine though.

Hello,
Reports does support BLOB and CLOB datatypes. This means that you can fetch and display data stored in these datatypes in the database. But note that the Reports display formatting engine cannot 'understand' data in PDF/Word/Excel formats. Hence you will not be able to display these files in Reports previewer. Instead, you can generate your report to a text file containing the BLOB/CLOB column's data, and then open it in the appropriate viewer.
Thanks,
The Oracle Reports Team.

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A document stored in the database can be easily retrieved in or via the browser using mod_plsql. Simplified:
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TIA

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<p>Did you see this Java Bean ?</p>
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Hi Shiv,
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And there may be, but you won't likely find that here. Do some time searching Google and maybe you'll find code that someone was nice enough to make freely available, although I wouldn't count on it. Were i a programmer and took the time to read those docs and write the code, I'd want to be paid for my time. But there are a lot of programmers who swear by freeware! You may get lucky.

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http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/support/sep_usermanual.pdf
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unable to open these pdf.
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Hi all,
I have a DB page to call next page to display pdf files.
A procedure is being called when the link is clicked on the first page.
However, the procedure output a juck code insteand the pdf files. Please help.
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(tempPDFFile, ".pdf", tempDir);
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Back up all data.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, the copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
/Library/Internet Plug-ins
In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
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~/Library/Internet Plug-ins
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Display PDF file in the Apex query report using HTML Expression

Hi Folks,
I have PDFs stored in BLOB columns along with FILE_ID column in the database.
I want to display these to the APEX user on the page at runtime.
I have created a SQL Query report page to display FILE_ID column.
I am using HTML Expression property of the FILE_ID column to pull the image from the table using PROC_DISPLAY_DOCUMENT procedure.
I typed folowing code int the HTML Expression text area of the FILE_ID column of the report page :
<img src="#OWNER#.proc_display_document?p_id=#file_id#"/>
I am using following Procedure code:
create or replace procedure "PROC_DISPLAY_DOCUMENT"(p_id number) as
s_mime_type varchar2(48);
n_length number;
s_filename varchar2(400);
lob_image blob;
Begin
select MIME_TYPE,dbms_lob.getlength(blob_content),file_name,blob_content
into s_mime_type,n_length,s_filename,lob_image
from tbl_upload_file
where file_id = p_id;
owa_util.mime_header(nvl(s_mime_type, 'application/octet' ),false);
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htp.p( 'content-Disposition: filename="' || s_filename ||'"');
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exception
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
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end;
--This is very Important
--grant execute on PROC_DISPLAY_DOCUMENT to public;
This code does not work and report does not display PDF image.
Any help to troubleshoot this code will be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Jaya

Hi Dimitri,
I hope you can see HTML Expression code now. Thank You for responding.
I have PDFs stored in BLOB columns along with FILE_ID column in the database.
I want to display these to the APEX user on the page at runtime.
I have created a SQL Query report page to display FILE_ID column.
I am using HTML Expression property of the FILE_ID column to pull the image from the table using PROC_DISPLAY_DOCUMENT procedure.
I typed folowing code int the HTML Expression text area of the FILE_ID column of the report page :
[!-- img src="#OWNER#.proc_display_document?p_id=#file_id#" ]
I am using following Procedure code:
create or replace procedure "PROC_DISPLAY_DOCUMENT"(p_id number) **
mimetype varchar2(48);
n_length number;
s_filename varchar2(400);
lob_image blob;
Begin
select MIME_TYPE,dbms_lob.getlength(blob_content),file_name,blob_content
into s_mime_type,n_length,s_filename,lob_image
from tbl_upload_file
where file_id = p_id;
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--set the size so the browser knows how much it will be downloading
htp.p( 'content-length: '|| n_length );
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htp.p( 'content-Disposition: filename="' || s_filename ||'"');
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exception
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end;
--This is very Important
--grant execute on PROC_DISPLAY_DOCUMENT to public;
This code does not work and report does not display PDF image.
Any help to troubleshoot this code will be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Jaya

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