Interactive chart in report and PDF printing

Dear all
is it possible to generate a chart (via an interactive report) and save that chart in PDF format? At the moment when I try and do this in my application I just get the raw data saved as PDF, not the actual chart.
Many thanks
Paul

Hello,
If you want to have charts in your report, the best
way I know of is by using BI Publisher Desktop to
create your rtf with a chart, upload it to your
report layouts and call a report query with that
report layout.
Marc Sewtz did a nice post about it:
http://marcsewtz.blogspot.com/2007/04/one-question-tha
t-is-often-asked-about.html
or you can check my blog for the bi publisher
configuration.
Regards,
Dimitri
-- http://dgielis.blogspot.com/
-- http://www.apex-evangelists.com/
-- http://www.apexblogs.info/
Hi Dimitri
unfortunately we dont have BI Publisher Desktop (as I think you have to pay extra for this :) ).
I take it that there is no freeware (or other way) to allow us to save the chart in PDF format?
Regards
Paul

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