Fop printing returns 0 byte pdf files

Hi,
Spent the whole day trying to get a PDF document out of APEX using Fop, but no luck sofar. Interestingly "fop" in Dutch means: tease, fool, trick, hoax, badger, vex, swindle, hoodwink
I've tried OC4J/Apache Fop:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/html/configure_printing.html#05
I've tried Cocoon Fop:
http://carlback.blogspot.com/2007/03/apex-cocoon-pdf-and-more.html
Both OC4J and Cocoon work fine when trying their sample pages.
I've setup the Apex print server parameters pointing first to the oc4j printserver and then to the cocoon printserver.
This is as far as the documentation gets me. How do I get a document produced? Here is what I did:
I created a form with a sql_query report, entered some query (select * from user_tables) and enabled PDF printing.
Both OC4J and Cocoon produce a zero byte pdf document.
I wonder if the printserver a being called at all since no activity is logged in ...\cocoon\WEB-INF\logs\cocoon.log
How do I find out what is going on. Is Apex calling the print server at all? What logs to check, any additional info to be sent to logfiles?
Another strange behaviour. When I turned on printing for an existing report region the print link has the following URL:
http://ngdwsrv/pls/apex/f?p=107:2:278743463863218506:FLOW_XMLP_OUTPUT_R3825265334087776571_nlThis results in : 404 The requested URL /pls/apex/f was not found on this server.
Rene

Hello!
Help me, please!
I need to print reports in PDF.
What I did:
1 I installed Apache Tomcat 6.0.14
2 I installed Cocoon 2.1.10
All works fine! http://localhost:8080/Cocoon opened OK
3 I copied fop_post to \apache-tomcat-6.0.14\webapps\cocoon\ , now I have apache-tomcat-6.0.14\webapps\cocoon\fop_post\sitemap.xmap
4 In apex I choose : Oracle BI Publiser - Standart Support
print server host address 192.168.1.112
print server port 8080
print server script \cocoon\fop_post\
Now I make simple report consists from 1 column from a simple table like emp table, and choose.
Output format - PDF
Report Layout - Default Report Layout
Apex is English.
I read that can be problem if I'll write use point in (example) 0.5 and everywhere I used 1.
When I run the programm and click print button I have error message : Acrobat could not open 'a[1].pdf' because is either not a supported file type or because
the file has been damage ......
I saved this file and opened with text editor but there was nothing and size of this file is 0 kb.
PLEASE, explain me where is problem and how to solve it?
Thank you!!!

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