Export from Flex?

Not sure if I put this in the right place, but here it goes
again...
I have just looked at the informative videos on the adobe web
site. I see how cool it is and easy to display data. At work I have
some extremely complex reports which are pushing my ASP expertise
to the limits. From what I've seen, I'd love to use Flex to display
these reports as they will server two purposes, displaying the data
and display it in a graphic (like charts). My question, can I add a
link in a flex page(?) to export the data and charts to a PDF for
printing or saving?
Thanks

We have very complex reports to generate from flex/flex data
services which comes from our back end java/database and are trying
to solve this as well. The adobe rep that came in a month or so ago
explained briefly that LDS exposes multiple ways to display reports
so we are hoping for some insight here :)

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With Regards
Gopinath.A
Software Developer
First Internet Systems Pvt. Ltd.,
Chennai

try this
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