Reports 6i - Character Mode Printing

Hi all,
I am working on Oracle Reports (6i) and I had to generate the report to a physical file using Forms and Reports 6i. I have been generating the report to Screen and saving the report output to a PDF. But if I select the File int he DesType and give the filename to the DesName as "MyDrive:\ReportOutput" with any extension (.txt, csv, pdf, xml) I could not see the file in the drive sepcified. Whereas when I generate the report from the Report Builder with the same name as the DesName Parameter i could see the report. I hope it to be a configuration issue. Can anyone help me in this regard. And one more thing, If I got the file with extension as ".PDF" I could not open the file as such. But if text or csv then i could see the report output.
Thanks.
Ravi
Edited by: user10902305 on Jan 16, 2012 5:00 PM

Since a solid line is a bitmapped object, the only way you'll be able to get something like that is to run in bitmapped mode. Sorry, but that's pretty much the difference between running in bitmap vs. character mode.
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