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Having read over the ruby pdf generation (simple reporting) options, I think Pdf::Writer will do just fine... ..if the following is possible On page 13 of (the really expansive) ::Writer manual, Replacement Tags are detailed. Before I jump into this tomorrow, I''m hoping for some triage sage advice. Finally, the question : "Would utilizing Replacement Tags be a suitable

I know there''s wiki page on generating PDF[*], but that''s not really what I want. I don''t need to create arbitrary PDF. What I''d like to do is create PDF templates and fill in the blanks. Roughly, I''m looking for functionality akin to the mail merge feature of word processors, including conditional and repeated elements, say, table rows. Michael

...t; > > > ..if the following is possible > > > > On page 13 of (the really expansive) ::Writer manual, Replacement Tags > > are detailed. > > Replacement tags are simply ways to programmatically insert text or > other tags. I am using this in the manual code (PDF::TechBook) to > replace <r:xref> tags with internal link tags (<c:ilink>). That way, I > can just put something like: > > <r:xref name="EmbeddingFonts" label="title" /> > > which will be replaced with: > > <c:ilink dest=''tgEmbeddin...

Is anyone using Pdf::Writer? I don know how to insert html tags in a pdf using Pdf::Writer, except <b> and <i> I think an idea is with Pdf::TechBook but i hadn''t seen any example till now. -- Cheers, ioana k&a http://boulangerie.wordpress.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060601/d38e288c/attachment.html