PDF Stamping

Question

Hello,
We have a business requirement to stamp a PDF document such as "DRAFT", "VOID" where the PDF doc stores customer cheques. We are looking for a way to change the PDF property through oracle Reports have an overlay of such as "DRAFT", "VOID". I am sure someone has done it in this community. Please share your thought with us.
We found out this tool from a third party and wonder anybody has used it:
http://www.plpdf.com/plpdf-toolkit.html
Thanks,
Edited by: lliang on Jul 31, 2012 10:20 AM

Answer 1

We do this by creating a (light grey) text field in the margin. You can have a format trigger on this field:
if <some condition> then
   return true;  -- the text D R A F T will be shown
else
   return false;
end if;The same may be achieved in your query too:
select case ...
          when ... then 'D R A F T'
          else null
       end  stamp
...Note that "margin" is not necessarily along the sides of a report. You can have a field in the middle of a page.
Plpdf is something completely different. It creates pdf reports from pl/sql. It has nothing to do with Oracle Reports.