Manually printing Forms and Reports

Hello All;
I have a request to print all forms and reports of a project once it's closed in PCM14. Prior to upgrading they were able to do this by passing argument of the closed project to GeneratePDF.exe... (PCM13.1). this is no longer available in 14 and BI, and asking for advice on how to address such a task or maybe where to go from here. I've searched here and Oracles KB site, I have a bit more insight but not much more.
Any insight and advise greatly appreciated

Well, it depends on the number of concurrent users and appln/database size
We have a solaris box where we have installed 10g AS and 10gDB with RAM of 8GB and hard disk 350 GB
It works fine and we have around 25 concurrent users
Rajesh Alex

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1. Fonts are to be revisited only Java fonts are supported.
2. Obsolete items, function calls, triggers are to be removed.
My question is since this application can be cross platform application,
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Java fonts are only supported for the Forms version.
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If you will only being using the PDF output (which for me replaced the Preview mode that existed in 6i), then you have to install the TTF for the missing font, an AFM (use the ttf2pt1 utility to generate the AFM file, but make sure you remove the AFM extension when moving it to Unix). You'll want to use the PDF Subset in the uifont.ali (which exists under the ORACLE_HOME/guicommon/tk/admin directory and add the line underneath the PDF Subset "Font Family Name"="TTF Font Name" The font family name is found when you open the AFM file in textpad or wordpad for the font you generated. This is what you enter. The TTF Font Name is the name the TTF font. You'll have to restart Reports Server after this.
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There is alot of work but mainly forms wasn't too bad, unless you had fonts that weren't supported. Usually there is another font that you can use to replace the old one but you have to know which fonts exists on the server and try all the keys on the keyboard to find the corresponding keystroke.
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