Interactive Report PDF Footer

We are replacing a bunch of Crystal reports with the new interactive reports. When we download an interactive report to PDF, it automatically puts the page number at the bottom right of every page. However, I'd like it to say "Page 1 of 3", "Page 2 of 3", etc. on the right side of the footer. And I'd also like it to say "Printed on 4/8/2008 at 2:15 pm" on the left side of the footer. This is what we displayed in the footer section on our old Crystal reports. I see the "Page Footer" section under "Print Attributes" for the interactive report, but I can't figure out what I need to enter into the section to make it display as described above. We are using the "Standard" print server (Apache FOP).
Darrin

Hi Tony,
Thanks for your reply.
I'm using "apex.oraclecorp.com" and have created reports based on RTF and SQL in application shared components. If i use APEX_UTIL.REDIRECT_URL API, i'm able to get the PDF output of my report. Unfortunately, REDIRECT_URL execute STOP ENGINE api internally, which stops the apex engine for any further processing and due to this rest of my plsql logic, dynamic actions, page refresh are not working !
Regards,
Parmod

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