How cognos can render pdf reports (Internally)?

[AshokG]

Hi Gurus,
Actually i want to render a report in pdf using sdk. So can you please give me idea about this?  :)

[Song]

Install SDK, then go to sdk/java directory and open runReport.java which shows you simple steps to render report via SDK calls. Look at run.bat/.sh to find which lib you need to compile and run SDK client program.

[AshokG]

Thank you song,
But I know that process. I want to know how the cognos will going to render pdf?

[bdbits]

Why? It's probably a java program, but what does it matter? I have my doubts that there is a documented Cognos API to produce arbitrary PDFs.

If you just want a method to create your own pdfs from code, there are many canned solutions, some free, you can incorporate into pretty much any program you write. Cognos is not needed. If you are really ambitious, PDF is a standard file format (you can google for documentation) anybody can use.