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On 22-aug-2006, at 22:26, Austin Ziegler wrote: > Not really. The Unicode problem for PDF support is wholly unrelated to > my stance on Unicode vs. m17n Strings. The Unicode problem for PDF > support is mostly that the PDF standards doc is a stinking pile that > is almost impossible to understand without your eyes bleeding and even > harder to implement. ;) I just

Hi, I have a really dumb qustion, but I can''t find an answer in "Agile Rails" or any other hand holder. And, it is a difficult topic to search for in google. What controller/view is used for the home page of a site? I get how to create new controllers, but I don''t get at all how to change content on the home page. thanks, matt On 12/14/05, Austin Ziegler

I''m using the ruby gem "Color" and I''m having some troubles with to_hex. I''ve installed the gem, and when I try and run the test program I get this error: >> red = Color.new(''ff0000'') => #<Color:0x3685990 @saturation=1.0, @hue=0.0, @lightness=0.5> >> yellow = Color.new(''ffff00'') =>

A friend and I are just in the process of trying to create PDFs on the fly. This isn''t in itself too hard, but we have some repeating images that are being put in over and over again. It''s increasing file size too much unfortunately. Does anyone know the best way to ensure file size is kept to a minimum for this scenario? We know about linking to a URI, but the problem with

Everyone. I had a conversation with folks from Microsoft today about trying to move Ruby''s installer to Visual Studio 2005 and WiX (the MSI installer). They''re quite serious about trying to get us shifted to modern compiler technology rather than VC++6 or even MSYS/MINGW. I can''t say that I disagree with them, either. However, I indicated that one of the big problems

= Reminder: TRUGhat is Saturday, 6 May 2006! The Toronto Ruby User Group''s first hackathon is this Saturday, 6 May 2006. If you are attending, please add your name to the TRUGhat wiki page. == When and Where? TRUGhat 2006:1 will be held on 6 May 2006, from 10:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. Tucows has generously provided the space and network availability for this event at its offices in Toronto,

The Toronto Ruby User''s Group (TRUG) is pleased to announce TRUGhat 2006:1. TRUGhat: [T]oronto [R]uby [U]ser''s [G]roup [ha]cka[t]hon TRUGhat is TRUG''s hackathon[1] or codefest. In a hackathon, a group of people get together and will either work toward a common goal, or simply work in a common area on code that interests them. For our first TRUGhat, we have agreed

Hello, I'd like to announce a release of a CentOS 5 DVD image, with i386 and x86_64 installations. This is an independent work, so please don't bother CentOS lists with bugs related to the installer only. Summary of changes: * i686 and x86_64 install from a single dvd (automatic detection on boot) * updates as of 2007-04-26 * no kdelibs-api-docs, openoffice.org, tetex-doc and most

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

In a new app we are developing, we need to be able to dynamically create a PDF and send it to the browser (inline with send_data). I have been tinkering with PDF::Writer and love the simplicity and native ruby-ness of it all. However, one of the main uses for this functionality is to output a PDF of addresses to be printed on Avery 5161 labels. LaTex seems to be suited well for this, but it

Two questions. First, I''m wondering if there''s a library already written that will enable Ruby to interface with CVS. I did find one (cvs.m17n.org/~akr/ruby-cvs/) but it''s unclear to me if that is still maintained. Some download links are broken and it seems to be at version 0.2. That''s why I ask if there''s an "official" one? Is that

Hey there, I know this isn''t a pdf::writer list - If there''s a more appropriate place for me to ask these questions I''d appreciate being set straight. I''m having a couple of misunderstandings/isssues first with page numbers and secondly with auto-wrapping of simple_table. First pdf.start_page_numbering(pdf.margin_x_middle, pdf.absolute_bottom_margin, 9,

I've got Chinese working, but having trouble with Nepali. Here's what I have installed: rpm -qa|grep -i nepal scim-tables-nepali-0.5.6-7 m17n-db-nepali-1.3.3-48.el5 What else is needed? Thanks Dave

Multilingual Rails v0.6 is released! Here is the changelog. Documentation and download at the homepage: http://www.tuxsoft.se/oss/rails/multilingual v0.6 - 2005-08-13 * String case-manipulation functions replaced with ruby-unicode equivalents (if ruby-unicode is installed): String#downcase, String#upcase and String#capitalize now fully handle Unicode. * String normalization

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:

Hi All, I generate a pdf report that contains a table. The report is 14 pages, and it takes 20s to be rendered. Most of these 20s are spend in the render_on method. I wonder if it is possible to speed up that process? To create the report, I do the following: 1) Setup pdf layout: # Setup pdf layout pdf.select_font("Helvetica", { :encoding => "WinAnsiEncoding"})

I just found this one: http://tinyurl.com/3c3mfa David, are there any other RSpec books in the works? With Regards, Cody Skidmore

I am trying to use an OCRB font in pdf::writer. So, I managed to install the font on a debian linux. The first line in OCR font is appearing on the pdf, but I get an error-message: "The font ''OCRBLT'' contains a bad /BBox". Someone ever had this problem? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Does anyone knows how to embed Type1 font with PDF::Writer? I read manual, tried everything but nothing seems to work (The font ''FontName'' contains a bad /BBox error on PDF). any help or hint would be really appreciated, Bojan Mihelac -- Bojan Mihelac Informatika Mihelac, Bojan Mihelac s.p. | www.informatikamihelac.com -> tools, scripts, tricks from our code lab:

i am trying to generate a pdf of all of the users in an application that i have built. i am still pretty new to ruby and rails so i don''t know the best way to go about it. here is my controller code: require ''pdf/writer'' require ''pdf/simpletable'' class ReportsController < ApplicationController def test _pdf = PDF::Writer.new table =