Overview » Features

With PL/PDF you can easily produce:

• Page formats: unit of measures, headers, footers, margins, page numbers
• Automatic page breaks
• Use of rows and columns
• Shapes: lines, circles, ovals, rectangles
• JPEG pictures from the database
• Fonts: type, size, colour, style, TrueType
• Use of colours
• Compression of pages

PL/PDF is more than a document generator for simple text. It includes:

• Character encoding support. The default encoding is cp1252, but all encodings are supported, including Unicode encodings. Apart from the 5 standard Adobe fonts (Helvetica (Arial, Sans Serif), Courier, Times (Serif), Symbol, ZapfDingBats), True Type Fonts may also be used. All European, CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) and Arabic/Hebrew (Beta version only!) characters are supported.
• Native support for JPG and PNG. All other image formats are passed onto automatic conversion by Oracle Intermedia.
• Many linear and 2D barcodes are supported with our Barcode package.
• The Chart generator displays complex numbers in simple diagrams.
• The Encryption package provides ways to limit what users can do with generated PDFs.
• A Java based and a PL/SQL based LZW compression is available to reduce the size of PDFs.
• The Template feature makes it possible to add new content to an existing PDF document.
• Fill out your Open Office PDF forms with PL/PDF!

PL/PDF version 2.1.0 is available to download through our support site support.plpdf.com. New major features of version 2.1.0:

• XHTML to PDF converter package – supports most XHTML tags
• TTF (True Type Font) loader GUI – to replace the manual loading of True Type Fonts
• Doc-XML – document your PL/SQL packages by putting XML tags in the package headers. With Doc-XML the XML tags are converted to a PDF document.

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