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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''

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

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

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

I have a requirement to generate views (list and show views, including data and uploaded images) into a format that can be saved and/or emailed. I''m looking for opinions on the easiest way to achieve this. I''ve researched the use of both PDF::Writer and Prawn, and it seems that to re-generate my views in pdf format will require a lot of work. Is there an easier way using .rtf

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.

Hi all, I''ve seen other messages on this problem, but I still can''t get back to working with Rails after using MacPorts to install a recent version of ruby on my mac OS X 10.5 (ruby 1.8.7.) I''m getting: "Rails requires RubyGems >= 1.3.2." In fact, I am running rubygems 1.3.5. Here are some settings of mine that seemed important in previous posts on this

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/. --

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,

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

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

Hello Guys I am using rails 3.2.8 and wickedpdf. Its working well in local but not in production.Below is the production logs error. "***************\"/var/www/apps/staging/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/bin/wkhtmltopdf\" -q \"file:///tmp/wicked_pdf_9892_0.html\" \"/tmp/wicked_pdf_generated_file_9892_0.pdf\" ***************" RuntimeError: Failed to

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

Hello everyone, I am using rails -v 3.2.8. I am using wickedpdf to generate pdf. Its working well in my local machine. But its not working in production server. ompleted 500 Internal Server Error in 4443ms RuntimeError (Failed to execute: "/var/www/apps/staging/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/bin/wkhtmltopdf" -q "file:///tmp/wicked_pdf_5855_0.html"

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

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

This is OT but have not been able to get a response elsewhere (stack overflow and the project site itself) so thought someone here might know or have some ideas. First, I am using wkhtmltopdf stand alone without any of the rails gems as I found that for some reason using WickedPdf or PdfKit my pdf''s did not generate with active links from the links from those in the html. When I run

I have been hacking around with this for a bit but want to see if there is an easy way: I am using Heroku and I have the wkhtmltopdf static binary in: rails_root/vendor/wkhtmltopdf I am not using any plug ins for wkhtmltopdf, just the executable, on purpose and want to keep it this way. My code wants to execute wkhtmltopdf: # tell wkhtmltopdf to convert html file to pdf

require ''prawn'' require ''prawn/core'' require ''prawn/layout'' Prawn::Document.new do |pdf| subtable = pdf.make_table([[ "foo", "bar" ], [ "baz", "bax" ]], :column_widths => [ 50, 50 ]) { column(0).background_color = "808080" cells.borders = []