Weird Errors in PDF Printing! Please help!

Question

Hi All,
I am facing two different problems in PDF printing. Any suggestions would be welcome. I would really be glad to understand what is going wrong.
Problem 1:
I have a page with 2 report regions, each with its own header. My PDF report was working fine till the necessity arised for providing a page break.
Examples for the problem occuring are:
1) The 2nd report's heading would be printed in 1st page and data in 2nd page.
2) The 2nd table's column heading (that are printed in 2 lines) would be displayed with first line in 1st page end and 2nd line in 2nd page start.
In order to avoid this I had to provide a page break. An RTF page break was of no use, because if the 1st report had no data then the entire page would have only "No Data Found". I do not want this to happen. Hence I tried giving the "<?split-by-page-break:?>" before the <?end if?>.
I designed RTF as shown below:
<?if:P0_REGION1_COUNT = 0?>Government Grants
No Data Found for specified Search Criteria <?split-by-page-break:?><?end if?>
<?if:P0_REGION1_COUNT != 0?>Government Grants
Table with data display <?split-by-page-break:?><?end if?>
<?if:P0_REGION2_COUNT = 0?>Non Government Grants
No Data Found for specified Search Criteria <?split-by-page-break:?><?end if?>
<?if:P0_REGION2_COUNT != 0?>Non Government Grants
Table with data display <?split-by-page-break:?><?end if?>
When I upload this and run my page, I get the "Adobe reader could not open file because it is not supported type, it has been damaged. Eg it was sent as email attachment and wasnt correctly decoded error".
I already know this error occurs when there is a "No Data Found" in the report. I hence handled it using the 1st if condition and report was working till i had to change it to include the page break.
And the best part is for the same data, the PDF runs correctly when using BI Publisher Desktop.
Anyone know what I am doing wrong or what is happening here?
Problem 2:
Whenever I change my RTF and upload it and run my application, my PDF output behaves in a very weird manner. After repeated tries of loading the same RTF, I finally get proper output. Once I get the output, it does not fail until I make changes to RTF and load again.
An example of weird output is: My first report data gets printed under 2nd report heading and vice versa. Also all the column data do not get printed. Only 1 or 2 columns data is printed.
Here also, for the same data, the PDF runs correctly when using BI Publisher Desktop.
Can anyone tell me what is going on??
Thanks,
Sumana

Answer 1

Hi All,
On further observation (for Problem 2), I found that once I upload the changed RTF and wait for a long time before running the application (sometimes 2-3 hours), I get proper results. The problem itself does not occur always.
Is there any session/cache issue here? Clearing my desktop, browser cache does not help. So is there any other APEX cache (server side cache) that I would need to refresh, every time I change RTF? Or the BI publisher that is being used is not getting refreshed?
Can anyone shed any light on this issue please?
Regarding problem 1, I have implemented the page break differently using an outer table for each report and setting the table properties. Hence this is not an issue now.
Thanks,
Sumana