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The free PL/SQL library to generate PDF are very hard to find. As I could not find one, I’ve written it from the well known PHP library FPDF which was written by Olivier Plathey.

I propose you the last release of the PL_FPDF library (0.9.3). I already use it on our production site laclasse.com.

Zip - 29.9 kb
Latest stable version 0.9.3
Latest stable version 0.9.3

previous releases

Zip - 26.7 kb
0.9.2
version of pl_fpdf : 0.9.2
Zip - 26.4 kb
pl_fpdf : 0.9.1
Version of pl_fpdf : 0.9.1

This code gives you the same functions than FPDF, except that it converts all the images you need in PNG.

Required Environment

- Oracle en version 10g (10.2.0.1 and above).
- Installation ofOracle Web Tool Kit required (owa, htp and htf packages).
- OrdSys.OrdImage required (Oracle cartridge for images).
- Installation of package URIFactory required.

Changelog
- 0.9.2 -> 0.9.3 :

  • Added Sample on setHeaderProc and setFooterProc procedures.
  • Added parameter implementation to thes procedures.
  • Modify Header and footer procedure behaviour to get parameter values
  • declared subtype ’word’ ans type ’tv4000a’ in the specs.

- 0.9.1 -> 0.9.2 :

  • Added procedure helloword Example.
  • Added procedure testImg Example.

- 0.9.1 First Stable Version ! - Minor bugs (thanks to Josh Burroughs)

  • Corrections on p_parseimage procedure (better reading of image files)
  • Corrections on p_escape procedure

- 0.9-Beta2 - Minor bugs (thanks to Rudy Winter)

  • Corrections on Image procedure
  • Corrections on header and Footer procedures

- Multiple images on the same page works, but only with png Format.

Known bugs on this version

- GIF images are not supported, because of a PNG conversion problem.

- No PDF file compression. (This not a bug but a lack of feature).
- Write procedure which allows to put a flow of text dealing with the page height and width, don’t run as well.
- ...

Asked Features

- Dynamique SQL execution procedure that generates aPDF table.

Download, Test, and code !

I’m very interessted in having back your codes, bugs corrections and evolutions.

code examples

Here are some online examples :

hello world

Test with an image

Here are some simple code samples with PL_FPDF.

helloWord Note that the "output" procedure calls automatically "ClosePdf".

procedure helloworld is
begin
        pdf.FPDF('P','cm','A4');
        pdf.openpdf;
        pdf.AddPage();
        pdf.SetFont('Arial','B',16);
        pdf.Cell(0,1.2,'Hello World',0,1,'C');
      pdf.Output();
end helloworld;

Put an image

procedure testImg is
 img varchar2(2000);
begin
        pdf.FPDF('P','cm','A4');
        pdf.openpdf;
        pdf.AddPage();
        pdf.SetFont('Arial','B',16);
      img := 'http://www.laclasse.com/v2/images/picto_laclassev2.png';
      pdf.Image(img,1, 1, 10);
      pdf.Output();
end testImg;

Monday 7 July 2008 by Pierre-Gilles Levallois