Printing database content, or creating a pdf from it

Gidday guys
Today I'm researching using AS3 AIR to format and print data from a database.
It needs to...
- take the data, and format it from a selection of page formats I present
- either print it to the printer, or save it to a pdf
I'm wondering if someone with experience can please nudge me in the right research direction to answer...
- what's the process for taking data and formatting it into an object to be printed of turned into a pdf?
- is the object you make for printing a sprite? ie for multi page printing, do you create multiple sprites that contain your data formatted a particular way, and then create a multipage document out of them.
Cheers for your guidance.

No that won`t work. AlivePDF uses its own method of embedding fonts (if I remmeber correct you can only use ttf not otf font formats). AlivePDF is not exactly well documented or much used. Its technics are a little "arcane". It was created by the same Guy whose brainchild was Stage3D so you can imagine how complex it is for us mere mortals. A good start is this little blog .
I also can see why Adobe (who is his boss) isn`t exactly highly motivated to make AlivePDF too much of a Acrobat Double ;-)

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