Generating a pdf form from oracle 10g databse.

Hi,
i am looking at some procedure/a code that will enable me to fetch data from oracle tables into tabular form and print the same in the form of a pdf file and allow me to attach the same file as an auto attachment to mail it to someone who is using the application.
wat i have been trying to do is get the data from database into .txt or .xls file format and convert it into pdf file.But for obvious reasons the tabular look isnt seen in the output pdf file.
and i have no idea of auto attaching the generated pdf file as an attachment to mail it.
any help would be of great use to me .
thanks in advance!!

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