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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

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

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

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, 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

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

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/. --

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

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 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

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''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 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

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,

Hi there, I''m looking for a powerful pdf creation libary. I already tried: prawn - Nice handling but way too slow when lots of tables are involved PDFKit - too slow Actually I''m trying prince with xml input. It''s pretty fast but I don''t like the page-break control. I need a libary which can create pdf''s with up to 90 pages with lots of nested

I''m looking for 3 areas to work as dynamic assets: image_path, javascript_path, and stylesheet_path When I say dynamic, I mean that they will be dynamic through controller/models. I have been working through approx. 12 hours of searches to satisfy my answer to this question but am not finding much luck. The closest things I''ve found enabling this are use of config for assets

Hi, I work on a website with many css files. To improve the performance of the site I would to merge all my css file into one on the production site. I know I could do this using plugins, but I heard it is possible natively within rails. Does someone know what it is? Greg -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Hi, I am trying to create a pdf using ruby jasper. For this I am referring this url:- http://oldwiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/howtointegratejasperreports I have done everything whatever is in that link. Still I am not able to get the pdf. I am not getting any error in log file. My log file is:- "Processing AccountController#customer_report (for 127.0.0.1 at 2009-04-27 13:19:34) [GET]

I''m currently using CSS to style my navigational menu. I also have jquery at my disposal. The basic structure is like this: <div id="nav"> <div class="inner-container"> <div id="wrap"> <div class="inner"> <h2> <span class="h-ico

Hello, I have a problem with the render :partial method in all my rails webapplications. I noticed that using render :partial will generate spaces (mainly top spaces) on the elements inserted. As all my websites are seperated by module (basicaly header, content, menu, footer) it''s quite a problem as I have to set negative margin- top to various parts for the site to display as expected