HTML Vs PDF output

Hi,
I have created a report which is
running on web.
The PDF output looks fine to me as seen during design time but the HTML output is totally weared.
The text is not formatted properly etc...
Is there any way i can design a report which will look same in pdf and html output .
Pl. help
sh

Mananing html and pdf together seems to me a difficult task.
Output format differs by the Operating system too.
Html can be in better shape when font size is
less than 8.
But if this is 8 or > than 8 it will mess up the report.
We definelty need some assitance from the oracle team to help us out in reducing our
development time for multiple outputs.
Looking fwd to hear from oracle team,
thanks in advance
shailesh
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by tlazio:
We gave up on HTMLCSS and converted all of our reports to PDF.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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