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APEX Office Print 101: Oracle APEX Document Printing

This is the beginning of a series of entries that revolve around APEX Office Print and its integration with Oracle APEX.


A usual requirement from the clients with whom I have worked, and that have applications in Oracle APEX, is to be able to print their data, reports, and forms quickly, with options for multiple formats and types of documents. Every Oracle APEX consultant has faced this issue at least once in his career, which can cause headaches since there are not many ways to do this out of the box, and the customization options are quite limited.

The decision to create Printer Friendly pages (an option that many of us considered when we were working with previous APEX versions like 3.x and 4.x) causes a huge technological debt, leaving the application at the mercy of each browser particularities and any change that the theme and templates assigned to the application may suffer in the future.

Several external solutions can help solve this problem, including BI Publisher, PL / PDF, and AOP, the latter being the one we will be checking in this post. Continue reading APEX Office Print 101: Oracle APEX Document Printing