PDF printing in the APEX workspace

Hi,
We have a application running at the http://htmldb.oraclecorp.com , now since it was upgraded to version 3.0 , the regions have got a new button called the "print" but when we enable and try using it , it throws up an error saying "Acrobat could not open 'obe_ projects[1].pdf' because it is either not supported file type or the file has been damaged" , is the upgrade completed or are there any additional steps to be taken for it to work?
Regards
Naveen

Naveen,
The site you're referring to, is an Oracle internal site. That instance is up-to-date and supports PDF printing, please contact me directly, if you encounter any difficulties.
Thanks,
Marc

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I'm trying to create an authorization scheme on a few specific regions on a page. I only want to show these region if the logged in user is an APEX developer or admin. When I try any of the built in APIs, they all return the application username which in our case is coming from SSO.
Basically, I want to show a form on a page if the user has logged into the APEX workspace and is running the application (seeing the edit menu at the bottom of the page) versus a regular user that has just launched the application directly.
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Corey

Corey,
Use the APEX_UTIL.GET_USER_ROLES function:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14373_01/apirefs.32/e13369/apex_util.htm#insertedID52
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CREATE:DATA_LOADER:EDIT:HELP:MONITOR:SQL - Indicates a user with developer privilege.
ADMIN:CREATE:DATA_LOADER:EDIT:HELP:MONITOR:SQL - Indicates a user with full workspace administrator and developer privilege.
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Dan
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Accidently deleted the Adobe PDF printer from the Printer List

Hi Guys,
I have accidently deleted the 'Adobe PDF printer' from the Printer List and am now unable to print any files to PDF from any application.
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Hi Nosaj68
Welcome to Discussions.
1. In Applications/Utilities/Printer Setup Utility, select Add printer and reinstall it.
2. If you can't find this file, reinstall Adobe Acrobat and that should put it back again for you.
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The exporting to excel seems to work fine by Enabling CSV Output under Report Attributes. However, when I try to print PDFs by enabling report printing and choosing the output format as PDF, I get an error. It seems to create a PDF file and when I choose to open it with Adobe 7.0, it says that the file is damaged and could not be repaired. When I enable report printing and choose the output format as HTML, however, it works beautifully.
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I haven't yet installed APEX 3.0 in my own environment, but I was just curious about something.
I see that almost all the report regions in the APEX development environment itself (the Builder app) have a new "Print" link that launches a PDF version of the report.
Since the PDF printing feature requires a BI Publisher installation, would the APEX 3.0 installation automatically install that product? Or would those links be hidden if PDF printing is not properly configured? After I install BI Publisher or Apache XSL-FO, would those Print links magically appear?
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"ORV"
There could be any number of reasons, based on the information provided, it's hard to diagnose what exactly went wrong with the installation. Please check the forum for a situation that applies to your case. Given your file name 'Calificaciones.pdf' I take it you're not running this in English, so one possible issue could be the default paper size A4, and the issue we found with decimal separators. If not running this in English, please go to the print attributes page and check your page size. Change the units to "Points" and make sure you have whole numbers for page width and height. Should this be the issue, please use this work-around in other cases as well. We'll provide a patch to fix this soon.
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Marc

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Hi Dimitri,
I hope you can see HTML Expression code now. Thank You for responding.
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APEX on Oracle XE PDF printing produces: Format error: not a PDF or corrupted.

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Regards,
Marc

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I noticed in the Application Express statement of direction, dated February 2, 2010, the section regarding the Application Express Listener stated "improved PDF printing". I construed (possibly misconstrued) this to mean the APEX Listener might include its own FOP processor, thus simplifying the setup and use of simple PDF printing in APEX.
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I have two users who have Acrobat X Pro version 10.1.4 that are experiencing the same things. First, one person just changed laptops and the new one has a fresh Windows 7 Enterprise X64 image and new installation of Adobe Acrobat X Pro. When he used the pdf printer for the first time(after opening the program and accepting the license agreement) he was in MS Excel '07 and chose file>print>Adobe PDF and then the progress bar came up and then showed not responding. After he did this a couple of times with me standing there I noticed that the save dialog box was opening in the background because I could see the icon blinking on the taskbar. He said that his old computer never did this and that it would always open up and ask where to save the file and never show 'not responding' on the progress bar. The other person having the same issue is running the same version but she has had the program installed on her machine for a few months and an older version on before that.
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