PDF Printing without Oracle BI Publisher and OC4J

Hi All
I am using Apex 3.1.2 on Oracle 10g XE. I am trying to enable PDF printing. But I am struck with Oracle BI and OC4J. I have read it some where (in a blog and I don't remember its name) that you can enable PDF printing without Oracle BI and OC4J.
Please let me know what I should do to enable PDF this way. Any links, document pointers greatly acknolwledged.
Thanks in advance.
Guru

Hi guru,
This was the reply I had got for posting the same question some time back.
Pdf printing option without using BI Publisher can be done using PL/PDF (http://www.plpdf.com) which provides a programmatic way to generate PDF documents (it doesn't produce Word docs as far as I'm aware however).

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