PDF with Tomcat - guidelines for template editing

PDF generation with Tomcat using the standard template works fine - but is pretty bland.
Does anyone have any guidelines for editing the template - what may / may not be included?
Are there any GUI tools for this?
Thanks
Mike

Vadim,
Report queries and report region use the same generic report layout. However the processing is handled by different engines. The underlying technical problem with your case is that the substitution string #TEXT_ALIGN# is not substituted in all cases for report queries. This usually does not cause any problems, but appears not to work when using Cocoon.
I'll see that we can this resolved with the next version of APEX, however when working with report layouts, you would typically use your own RTF or XSL-FO stylesheets, where this problem would not occur. The option to use the generic report layout is only included so the data can be tested independently from the layout and is not really intended to be used as the actual layout at runtime.
The generic report layout function is mainly designed to be used for report regions.
Regards,
Marc

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Edited by: user614694 on Oct 6, 2008 3:09 AM
Edited by: Ronald van Dijk on Oct 6, 2008 3:10 AM

Hello Ronald,
Your code looks fine to me. Although xsl-fo is not very friendly for a slight change...
This is an example I use during my PDF printing presentation:
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http://dgielis.blogspot.com/
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I am having problem with Tomcat/Cocoon combination for APEX PDF printing which I installed following Carl Backstrom instructions.
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Vadim

Vadim,
Report queries and report region use the same generic report layout. However the processing is handled by different engines. The underlying technical problem with your case is that the substitution string #TEXT_ALIGN# is not substituted in all cases for report queries. This usually does not cause any problems, but appears not to work when using Cocoon.
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Mylenium, Thank you for your on-point explanation of why the markups don't import into Illustrator. Based on your input, I did some digging and discovered:
I can export the Acrobat "Comments" (text highlights, but not markups?) to a FDF file
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/pro/using/WS40A4853E-0D48-46a6-8AB6-6B9A27A22D83.html
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I've built a small report writer with printed output using Tomcat.
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The generic report layout function is mainly designed to be used for report regions.
Regards,
Marc

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