Regression testing on PDF output files from Reports?

My current client is looking to do more automated regression testing of the output (content) of their reports, most of which are output from Reports6i into Adobe Acrobat PDF file format. Is anyone currently using or aware of a tool (QARun, WinRunner, etc.) that will do this? (Most of the tools can do a binary comparison of the PDF files that were output, but we need something that will look into the PDF files themselves and tell us where any differences are found in the actual content (text) of the report itself.)
Thanks in advance for any info anyone can provide!
- Bill

Dear Nick,
Just ensure a printer is configured. This can be done by typing in echo $PRINTER at the $Prompt.
If it returns null then configurea printer and i fell this should resolve your problem,
Since it did resolve my problem.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Nick Mavrakis:
I am having some trouble getting pdf output in the unix environment from Reports 6i.
If I kick off a defined report file (.rep) from the command line as follows:
rwrun60 testreport.rep destype=file desformat=pdf desname=testreport.pdf userid=connection_details
I get the following errors:
REP-0004: Warning: Unable to open user preference file.
REP-3300: Fatal error in toolkit.
UI-9: This function call is out of context
If I run the command without the file output options (rwrun60 testreport.rep userid=connection_details) then the report opens up on the screen correctly. From here, if I try to generate a pdf file, I get the following error:
REP-1800: Formatter error.
The report is defined as character type, and is a simple listing of approximately 50 records from a database table. There are no graphics or any pl/sql defined in the report.
Has anyone had similar problems in trying to do this?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Nick<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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