PDF printing in APEX not working on Linux with BI Publisher configured

I have downloaded BI Publisher standalone version
10.1.3.3.1 and configured it with APEX 3.0.1 on
Linux. Report Printing has been enabled for our
tabular form in APEX but the report never displays in
any format (pdf, html, word). The page is blank.
Generating a pdf report gives the following error
message when selecting the 'open' option: Adobe
Reader could not open Zipcode_Table[1].pdf because
it is either not a supported file type or the file
has been damaged. The same happens if the file is
saved and then opened in Adobe Reader. Please
help!
Thanks,
DeniseDenise,
In APEX, first try using the default report layout (its ugly, but it will show at least if your query is producing xml data).
Can you build a small report in APEX, with one or two columns, and build the RTF layout in Word and upload it to you app, and try that as a test..
Next I would recommend looking at the apache logs to see if there are any errors occurring when APEX sends the xml stream to BI Publisher.
Also, have you posted this over in the APEX support forum? The developers of APEX are there and they WILL help you find an answer, Marc the product manger helped me with my BI Publisher/APEX issues..

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