Have working PL/SQL, need to create a PDF

I am a newbie to Oracle Reports, and I need to generate a report that is beyond the basic reports scenario. I am having no luck with the GUI or web editor (I can't even get anchors and expandable sections to work), but I have a working PL/SQL routine that writes the output to html and does everything I want except to format the data in a .PDF file and make the output available via a URL. Oracle Reports did a great job of formatting the original version of what we need, but the few modifications are not so simple with reports.
Old simple scheme:
Group info item 1
Group info item 2
[Table of entries for this group]
new page in PDF if more groups...
New scheme:
Group info item 1
Group info item 2
boilerplate text.....
SQL query based on this group item 1
more boilerplate text...
[Table of entries for this group]
more boilerplate text
new page in PDF if more groups...
What is the best approach for getting Oracle Reports to use what I already have in PL/SQL (cursors, etc.)?
Thanks for any suggestions!

You may re-use your working pl/sql code to populate global temporary tables from AfterParameterForm trigger and write a simple RDF to read data from those tables.

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