Error using PDF printing

Hello.
I am having a problem using PDF printing.
When choosing PDF as output format in the Print Attributes tab, upon clicking on the print link in my app, Adobe reader comes up, but then I get a pop-up stating that the file could not be opened "... because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged...".
If I choose HTML as output format in the Print Attributes tab, then I get a long web server error stack that looks like this (see below)
Any idea what might be wrong?
thanks
Boris
Error stack:
HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP:
An error occurred at line: 12 in the jsp file: /apex_fop.jsp
XMLDocument cannot be resolved to a type
9: <%
10: response.setContentType("application/pdf");
11:
12: XMLDocument v_doc;
13: XSLStylesheet v_xsl = null;
14: String v_fop;
15: DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
An error occurred at line: 13 in the jsp file: /apex_fop.jsp
XSLStylesheet cannot be resolved to a type
10: response.setContentType("application/pdf");
11:
12: XMLDocument v_doc;
13: XSLStylesheet v_xsl = null;
14: String v_fop;
15: DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
16: XSLProcessor processor = new XSLProcessor();
An error occurred at line: 15 in the jsp file: /apex_fop.jsp
DOMParser cannot be resolved to a type
12: XMLDocument v_doc;
13: XSLStylesheet v_xsl = null;
14: String v_fop;
15: DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
16: XSLProcessor processor = new XSLProcessor();
17: // set the encoding for the XML Processing
18: String v_encode = "UTF-8";
An error occurred at line: 15 in the jsp file: /apex_fop.jsp
DOMParser cannot be resolved to a type
12: XMLDocument v_doc;
13: XSLStylesheet v_xsl = null;
14: String v_fop;
15: DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
16: XSLProcessor processor = new XSLProcessor();
17: // set the encoding for the XML Processing
18: String v_encode = "UTF-8";
An error occurred at line: 16 in the jsp file: /apex_fop.jsp
XSLProcessor cannot be resolved to a type
13: XSLStylesheet v_xsl = null;
14: String v_fop;
15: DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
16: XSLProcessor processor = new XSLProcessor();
17: // set the encoding for the XML Processing
18: String v_encode = "UTF-8";
19:
An error occurred at line: 16 in the jsp file: /apex_fop.jsp
XSLProcessor cannot be resolved to a type
13: XSLStylesheet v_xsl = null;
14: String v_fop;
15: DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
16: XSLProcessor processor = new XSLProcessor();
17: // set the encoding for the XML Processing
18: String v_encode = "UTF-8";
19:
An error occurred at line: 21 in the jsp file: /apex_fop.jsp
XSLStylesheet cannot be resolved to a type
18: String v_encode = "UTF-8";
19:
20: // get the XSL
21: v_xsl = new XSLStylesheet(new java.io.StringReader(request.getParameter("template")),null);
22:
23: // get the XML String from the form which was posted
24: parser.parse(new java.io.StringReader(request.getParameter("xml")));
Stacktrace:
     org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:85)
     org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:330)
     org.apache.jasper.compiler.JDTCompiler.generateClass(JDTCompiler.java:435)
     org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:298)
     org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:277)
     org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:265)
     org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:564)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:299)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:315)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
     javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.23 logs.
Apache Tomcat/5.5.23

Hi Boris,
I have the same issue. I am using FOP. have two reports to print in PDF format. one is output fine, another is having the problem that you mentioned. I found it's related to the column width(%) setting and Orientation setting. but I don't know how to set the column width correctly. I tested with different values for the one that works fine. unfortunately can't sort out another.
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