Timesheet Application And PDF Printing

Hi,
I demo'd the time sheet application from the apex server and the management team here really liked it so I moved to our machine here and when i try the pdf printing i get the following error
Not Found
The requested URL /dev/apex/f was not found on this server.
Oracle-Application-Server-10g/10.1.2.0.0 Oracle-HTTP-Server Server at 10.144.55.241 Port 80
I dont have access to the back end and wouldn't know what to do anyway so before i get the DBA here to investigate the setup is there some variable that I have to change in the app or do I have to get the DBA to follow sets 4 and 5 on the PDF Printing in Application Express 3.0 page
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/html/configure_printing.html
Thanks Andy

Hello,
Yes you have to do steps 4 or 5, those set up the servers that do the actual PDF rendering.
It's not as hard as it looks, at least if you are just setting it up for demo purposes.
There have been several links on setting up BI Publisher , there is a screencast of setup up FOP on OC4J
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/html/fop_war_viewlet_swf.html
and I have this screencast that shows setting up Cocoon to do the PDF rendering.
http://carlback.blogspot.com/2007/03/apex-cocoon-pdf-and-more.html
Regards,
Carl
blog : http://carlback.blogspot.com/
apex examples : http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=11933:5

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