similar to: pdf-writer - SimpleTable - change font betweent columns

Hello All: I have been working with <a href="http://ruby-pdf.rubyforge.org/pdf-writer/index.html">Austin Ziegler''s PDF::Writer</a> as a means to produce PDF documents from my Rails app. I am stumped on how to iterate through a collection of items and output them in a table format. The way I have tried it so far only returns the last item in the collection -

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 =

Hello, I am having performance issues ending with a ''time out'' from Apache when I try to generate a PDF file using pdf-writer. It seems to happen at the render_on(pdf) function call ; the table I am trying to draw has 8 colums which values are generated on the fly. Can''t find anything about pdf-writer and the ''time out'' on the Web so far. Any

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"})

class Mash < Hash def method_missing(name, value=nil) key = name.to_s.sub(/[=?!]$/,'''').to_sym self[key] = value if name.to_s[-1,1] == "=" self[key] = Mash.new unless self[key] || value return self[key] end end Its like OpenStruct...so what can you do? require ''pp'' m = Mash.new m.first_name = "john" m.last_name =

In my rails app I need to create pdf reports on the fly. I have installed railspdf, wich is working fine. But, how can I create tables and paragraphs and stuff? Can I mimic an .rhtml file (using <% for ...%> etc? Or is it wise to use Ruby::PDF directly? Is there anyone out there with experience in this, and who is willing to share his findings? Thx -- Posted via

I''ve been searching for a way to easily convert an html page into a pdf in my rails app and I haven''t found anything worth calling home about. Has anyone found something good out there? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails:

Hi I just can''t seem to figure this out. I know that PDF doesn''t support UTF-8 so I''m trying to use Iconv to convert the string from UTF-8 to MacRoman (or anything that will work). This doesn''t seem to be working though. Is there a better/ correct way to do this? The sting is stored as UTF-8 in MySQL and displays properly on the web (<?xml

Hi, A little question. I''ve written a method that uses PDF::Writer to generate a PDF document with some images and text. This is the code on my controller: def pdf gen_pdf redirect_to("#{@request.relative_url_root}/pdf/cupones.pdf") end private def gen_pdf pdf = PDF::Writer.new(:paper => "A4") pdf.margins_cm(0) pdf.start_columns(2, 0) pdf.select_font

I''ve been implementing this: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoGeneratePDFs [PDF::Writer section on using rpdf templates] Strangest thing tho is that it doesn''t work with IE [get a ''server not found'' error] - after reviewing the headers and such, I noticed that there was no file name for the generated PDF in IE - so I made sure that this was in

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/.

Hi list, I see almost all people here uses PDF::Writer for generating pdf documents with rails. I used it too at first, but am using both now and would like to see some advantages and shortfalls you came using each of these two packages. Here are my thoughts for now: PDF::Writer: - extensive documentation - writen using ruby conventions - easy to use - some bugs with embeding fonts prevent

Hi to everyone, In my Rails experimenting, I''ve come to a point where in the application happens what follows. 1. Upon selecting some stuff on a page, the user click on a button. 2. After clicking I need to: 2.1 Produce a PDF with some "Pretty Useful Information(TM)" 2.2 Bring the user to another page The PDF being produced with PDF::Writer requires a "render"

hey friends, I can export the openoffice writer files to pdf but how do I convert the pdf files to openoffice writer files. Is there any utility on centos or on linux which can convert pdf to openoffice files. I am using centos4.0 Thanks & Regards Ankush Grover -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

hi everyone, I wanna know if I use i = Magick::ImageList.new("Button_A.gif", "Cheetah.jpg"), can this function return a i as an image if not I wish that u helpme to find something that I can do to collect many pics in one pics so I can list it in pdf by pdf.image i because when I use pdf.image.(every pics), it''s put every pics in a line and this isn''t my goal

I can define orientation easily with pdf writer with :orientation, but all the pages get the same orientation I want to do a page as portrait and the next as landscape, without specific order Is it possible? Regards Celso Costa

Wondering if anyone else had problems with the add_text_wrap of the pdf-writer gem? I have something that looks like the following below, but it does not wrap down to the next line, it just either runs off the page or stops before the page, depending on the width of the text_wrap. Anyone have any ideas? @additional_items = @user.additional_items pdf.add_text_wrap(310, 605, 300, @additional_items,

I would like to give the user to execute an :action => ''print'' to get a pdf version of the current content in the displayed page (rendered by an :action =>''list'' I installed pdf-writer and played with it, but I don''t know how to give him the @content he needs... shoudl I re-execute all the list action before rendering ? or use Ajax to get

How can I put these (á,é,í,ó,ú,ñ,€) in PDF Writer? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email

Greetings all - happy new year, I''m having problems getting Pdf::Writer image insertion. pdf.image "/path/to/images/logo.jpg" is firing "JPEG marker not found!" Originally created the RGB (8 bit) JPEG in photoshop. After the above, I''ve exported with an alternate tool using (OSX) preview. This tutorial