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Thoughts on using WickedPDF vs PDFKit vs. Prawn or others for developing forms with dynamic content? TIA, Garrett Lancaster -- 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-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Hello All, I wanted to convert .html file into .pdf. is there any rails plugin ?? Thanks, Sandip R~ -- Ruby on Rails Developer http://sandip.sosblog.com http://funonrails.wordpress.com www.joshsoftware.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this

hi, everyone, i have googled around for some pdf generators. Found 1) PDF::Writer which is a little dated 2) Rupdf (http://scoop.simplyexcited.co.uk//2007/12/15/rupdf-simple- ruby-pdf-rails-plugin/ and http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/rupdf) - it''s a little dated. Last revision was on 15th of Dec, 2007. Any recommendations for pdf generators? thank you -- You received this

I would like to take a rails page and convert it to a pdf. I don''t want to have to generate the code myself for making the pdf, so it should obey css. What is the best tool for doing this? Does the tool use the standard css, or can I provide it alternative print-css? Thanks in advance, Jonathan Steel -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you

Hi Guys I need help.. I want to making 1 controller for covert html to pdf.. But that html have amchart (swf). When I tried convert, the swf not loadded... Any body can help me Please???? -- Senior Rails Developer Anton Effendi - Wu You Duan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send

As described on wkhtmltopdf Google group (http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/issues/detail?id=162), I have a problem generating a PDF while using popen and wkhtmltopdf. wkhtmltopdf takes HTML code as input and ouputs a PDF file. Here is what I''m doing: command = ''"C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\wkhtmltopdf.exe" - - -q'' IO.popen(command,

Dear All, i am developing an application with rails 3, and now i need to generate a pdf file,i search a lot, and try a lot ,such as prawn ,PDFkit and so on, it seems that prawn is no response in rails3, and when i use PDFKit, it asked me to install wkhtmltopdf first, i try to install this,but failed, anyone can help me ? Thanks very much. Daisy -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --

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

Hi all, I was wondering how you guys generate reports from rails. I want to generate business reports in pdf format, and was wondering what you guys use. I have searched the web and found Ruport, but there isn''t much documentation or examples of real world business reports like jasperreports, for instance. Is it possible to generate good looking business reports with ruport? What other

The recent discussion about different graphing solutions made me think. What is everyone using for general reports? Currently I have a web based application at work that has roughly 20 different reports ranging from simple tabular data with totaling at the bottom to pretty, colorized, graphic logo''s,etc... going to clients, and finally complex ones I hate to think about such as

Hello, I''m writing a mail-merge application with Ruby on Rails. I have one user-created template, wich he creates with a CKEditor (in HTML). I have a list of members, and in the "mailings" controller I mix the template with the members data to create a PDF with a letter to every member. This is all working correctly... Except one part: I don''t know how to render

R 3.4.1 OS X and Windows Colleagues I have a complicated problem that includes several components: R RTF PDF Using R (and a slew of RTF commands), I assemble a text document with an RTF extension. The document contains text, tables, and images (JPEG format, previously created with R). To ?import? the JPEG images into the document, I use the following R code: cat("\\pard\\qc

Hi all i''m trying to generate pdf and i got this error Location of wkhtmltopdf unknown and i also get Bad wkhtmltopdf''s path gpa/vendor/plugins/wicked_pdf/lib/wicked_pdf.rb:26:in `initialize'' /EDWARD/_gpa/vendor/plugins/wicked_pdf/lib/pdf_helper.rb:53:in `new'' /EDWARD/gpa/vendor/plugins/wicked_pdf/lib/pdf_helper.rb:53:in `make_pdf''

Hi, I need to implement some RTF export for a customer. According to some "templates", i generate RTF documents, filling data coming from models. It''s pretty much like a mailmerge, but in *nix/ruby world. Also, customer would like (in the future) to upload himself the templates, so he can modify them by his own. Can anyone advice me on an elegant solution? Thank you,

Hi all, I have interesting thing to do. I want to create widget for displaying few formats of files (pdf, rtf, doc). Probably it will works like pdf viewer and all other files I will convert to pdf so if User want to open rtf then I convert rtf to pdf then display on screen (this I think will be the easier way). The thing is that I don''t know exactly how to create this kind of widget.

Any easy way to print on mailing labels that have 3 columns? I need these to fit in my laser printer. I have no trouble with single column labels, but I don''t know how to make a partial display 3 times across a page with different records. Thanks Bob <bsm2th-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

hi I am not getting the css in my pdf i wanna use same css for my pdf also rather going for new css for pdf. how can I use same css which I use in my views. I am using wkhtmltopdf for pdf generation and one more thing is how get page page brake using wkhtmltopdf. Cheers, Kp -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.

Hello All, I 'm trying to plot R graph in landscape orientation in a .rtf file. i 'm using library(rtf) for this. do we have any option in addPlot() function to rotate the orientation of the rtf file? Thank you, Deepthi BM PGDB-10-10-04 Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology Biotech Park, Electronic City, Phase I, Bengaluru-560100

Hello: when i use Prawn to generate pdf file for download, i got a blank pdf file, can someone tell me why? require ''prawn'' class DownloadController < ApplicationController def download_pdf send_data(generate_pdf, :filename => ''test.pdf'', :type => ''application/pdf'') end private def generate_pdf

I have been looking for a way to write R-generated reports to Microsoft Word documents. In the past, I used the package R2wd, but for some reason I haven't been able to get it to work on my current set up. R version 2.15.0 (64-bit) Windows 7 Enterprise - Service Pack 1 Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 - Word version 14.0.6123.5001 (32-bit) I gave the package