I am at a point where I will need to print checks in an application. I guess the best way to describe this is that I am using pre-printed checks and that I want to hit the prescribed areas with my text output. Should I be doing something like PDF output like pdf-writer or other or can I possibly do this with html and css? My output will be check runs of many checks with 1 page per check. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Craig White wrote:> I am at a point where I will need to print checks in an application. > > I guess the best way to describe this is that I am using pre-printed > checks and that I want to hit the prescribed areas with my text output. > > Should I be doing something like PDF output like pdf-writer or other or > can I possibly do this with html and css?You will probably want to generate a PDF file. Prawn is very easy to use for PDF generation; try that first. If Prawn won''t do what you want, perhaps Prince (expensive) or one of its free competitors (Flying Saucer, wkhtmltopdf) is worth a try.> > My output will be check runs of many checks with 1 page per check. > > Any suggestions will be appreciated. > > Thanks > > CraigYou''re welcome!> > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean.Please stop appending this to your messages. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org marnen-sbuyVjPbboAdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 23:42 +0200, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:> Craig White wrote: > > I am at a point where I will need to print checks in an application. > > > > I guess the best way to describe this is that I am using pre-printed > > checks and that I want to hit the prescribed areas with my text output. > > > > Should I be doing something like PDF output like pdf-writer or other or > > can I possibly do this with html and css? > > You will probably want to generate a PDF file. Prawn is very easy to > use for PDF generation; try that first. If Prawn won''t do what you > want, perhaps Prince (expensive) or one of its free competitors (Flying > Saucer, wkhtmltopdf) is worth a try. > > > > My output will be check runs of many checks with 1 page per check. > > > > Any suggestions will be appreciated. > > > > Thanks > > > > Craig > > You''re welcome!---- I just wanted to say thanks again Marnen, prawn was perfect and was simple enough to use, even in it''s still immature state. I also needed an old plugin called numbersToWords for the checks but that seems to work fine in 2.3.2 so I am good and now all I have left is to write the code to post the changes to the legacy db (AP and GL). I am rocking - thanks Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.