similar to: Prawn gem: How to create the .pdf from an *existing* file

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 = []

Hello, my question is rails related though it is also somewhat specific to the prawnto plugin (installed latest version as of 2010-03-15). I would ask on a prawnto forum/list if I knew where one was. Anyhow, I''m using rails 2.3.5 (with ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 111) in an app that is successfully using the prawnto gem (with the prawn gem version 0.7.1). I''ve got a a

Hi everybody, I''m trying to use the prawn gem into a new rails3 application on debian. What I did: As root: - install rubygems, from http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/73882/rubygems-1.4.2.tgz - gem install rails - gem install prawn - gem install pdf-reader - gem list | grep prawn => prawn (0.8.4) prawn-core (0.8.4) prawn-layout (0.8.4)

Hi everyone, I need some insight into a problem I just started having. I''m running ruby 1.8.6 on an ubuntu box with the following gems installed: $ sudo gem list --local *** LOCAL GEMS *** actionmailer (2.3.5, 2.3.4, 2.3.2, 2.2.2) actionpack (2.3.5, 2.3.4, 2.3.2, 2.2.2) activerecord (2.3.5, 2.3.4, 2.3.2, 2.2.2) activeresource (2.3.5, 2.3.4, 2.3.2, 2.2.2) activesupport (2.3.5, 2.3.4,

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 folks, A new release of Prawn is out, with some bug fixes and a couple backported features from edge. This release is API-compatible with 0.2.0, so please do upgrade! Release notes at: http://blog.majesticseacreature.com/archives/2008.10/prawn_0_2_1-2.html Enjoy! -greg -- Technical Blaag at: http://blog.majesticseacreature.com | Non-tech stuff at: http://metametta.blogspot.com

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/. --

Hi, I am new to rails. I need to edit an existing pdf file and fill in some data and send it to browser, how to implement this? Is there an example online I can look at it? Thanks! -- 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

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

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 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

I was having great success with creating PDFs with prawn, I followed Ryan Bates latest screencast. All good. Trouble is when i come to deploy the app on my webhost I ran into trouble. Rails 2.3 app. I did, "sudo rake gem unpack prawn" to freeze it in. I put the app on my webhost but it won''t start, some error saying it can''t find prawn. Any ideas? (summary: works

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

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

Hi ! I need to create some pdf from my application. I have a table people with a field address and I need to generate a pdf of label of each address ( I think 10 labels per page). The pdf can have around 500 pages. Which library should I use to do it ? I read some information about different library to generate pdf but I don''t know if all library are a good choice for generate

I have a form ... html ..... <% form_for @person do |f| %> ... html ..... <%= f.text_field :last_name %> ... html ..... <% end %> When last_name field of @person doesn''t contains french special symbols like ''é'', all characters are displayed in the input control (f.text_field :last_name ). Else only symbols before french special symbol are

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 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

submit.pdf.prawn files pdf.text "successfully submitted" form controller file def index @forms = Form.all respond_to do |format| format.html end end def submit respond_to do |format| format.pdf {render } end end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on

Hi friends, I just finished working on an application, which renders a pie chart on the webpage and i want users to have it on their pdf page, pls i there a way to render the Pie Chart (High Charts) on PDF page -- 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,