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Hello All, We''re working on a project on a Windows machine that will use PDFKit to convert an HTML page to a PDF. I have followed all the instructions at GitHub (http://github.com/jdpace/PDFKit), for installing wkhtmltopdf and PDFKit, then creating the config file in ''config/initializers/pdfkit.rb'' and then finally, setting up Middleware for Rails apps in

I also posted this on stackoverflow so apologises for cross posting but I think this is probably a better home for this post. I have been looking into using PDFKit to generate pdf reports for a Rail 3 app I''m working on. Basically if I use PDFKit as middleware any page in the app is nicely rendered to a pdf including the javascript generated graphs. However, I want to use a different

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/. --

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 tried convert html to pdf using pdfkit. I have a google map image, when it render to pdf version. map part blank. any idea ? 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 rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org

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

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, i''have started a discussion in dragonfly google group because of problems using dragonfly image processing gem with wicked_pdf. http://groups.google.com/group/dragonfly-users/browse_thread/thread/c8602007c3e43753 In these post I have linked to a public github project for testing this issue. There''s also a heroku app: http://wicked.heroku.com/projects.pdf debug mode of

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

I have this listed in the Toto Issues list on Git and know that it is affecting one other person and so far no ideas... just want to throw it out here if anyone else has had the issue or better yet has a fix: I have a pretty stock instance of Toto. Locally I run it on thin and everything works. When I push it to heroku, the index loads but on every article, instead of showing the date in the

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.

<https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Ic75bafROg0/UG10hP-nizI/AAAAAAAAAAc/NkV_Bom9rYI/s1600/552.png> Hi all im facing a problem with wkhtmltopdf i am unable to break a page for pdf output. can any one help me to do that. Cheers, Kp -- 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 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"

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

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

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''

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 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

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! Im trying to install act_as ferret on win xp, with this environment: winXP ruby : 1.8.7 rails: 2.3.8 gem list: abstract (1.0.0) actionmailer (3.0.1, 2.3.8, 1.3.3) actionpack (3.0.1, 2.3.8, 2.3.2, 1.13.6, 1.13.3) actionwebservice (1.2.6, 1.2.3) activemodel (3.0.1) activerecord (3.0.1, 2.3.8, 2.3.2, 1.15.6, 1.15.3) activeresource (3.0.1, 2.3.8) activesupport (3.0.1, 2.3.8, 2.3.2, 1.4.4,