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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 = []

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)

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 there, Can anybody show me (maybe copy/paste a simple code example) how to create the .pdf file from an existing (.xls) file, using the Prawn gem? Basically, I''d need the command that takes an existing (.xls) file to save it as a .pdf, afterwards. (I''m asking because the Prawn documentation at http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/docs/ seems to be gone since quite a while -

Hi, I have problem with showing some string in my site with Rails 4 I get this message: incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8 concerning this html sequence in an erb file: <h3><%= MyString.to_s.force_encoding("UTF-8") %></h3> I get this problem only on *production server,* but I do not have the problem on my local computer What can I do with this

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

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, 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

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 guys, I have a new development server (ubuntu 10). I have done the following (the versions match my existing development machine which works fine): 1. installed ruby 1.9.1p378 2. installed ruby gems 1.3.7 3. installed rails 2.3.8 (used "gem install rails -v 2.3.8") 4. manually installed my other gems including sphinx and thinking sphinx with "gem install ..." 5. ran

My ruby version is 1.8.7 I have installed mysql-essential-5.0.90-win32 and using Fedena 2.3.5 List of all gems installed:* columnize (0.3.6) declarative_authorization (0.5.1) fattr (2.2.1) ffi (1.9.0) gem_plugin (0.2.3) highline (1.6.19) i18n (0.4.2) metaclass (0.0.1) mime-types (1.23) mocha (0.14.0) mongrel (1.1.5) mysql (2.8.1) net-ping (1.6.0) prawn (0.6.3) prawn-core (0.6.3) prawn-format

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,

Hi! Just started to learn Rails, and I get this error when i''m trying to make a simple forum-app (much like the screencast about making a blog in 15min at rubyonrails.org). This appears when I try to render a partial - that is posting a comment containing swedish letters å (&aring;), ä (&auml;) and ö (&ouml;). I can view those posts by going to localhost:3000/posts/ using

am getting error: rake db:migrate (in /home/hsrai/public_html/ERP/ERP_Campus/projectfedena_v2.0) rake aborted! can''t activate , already activated prawn-0.11.1 Where is problem? Fedena is Ruby on Rails (RoR) application. My installation log is below signature. mkdir ERP cd ERP wget http://202.164.53.122/ERP/ERP_Campus.tar.gz tar -zxvf ERP_Campus.tar.gz cd

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

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 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 First off, I''m using Ruby 1.9.1p378 and Rails 2.3.8. I was creating a minimal application to test handling of Norwegian special characters when I bumped into this strange problem... I have a simple Car model with fields maker:string and model:string. For the controller I planned to just have an index action do all the work: class CarsController < ApplicationController def index

Hi, I think I''m very near of accomplishing this but I have a problem. This is the code: <%- content_for :head do -%> <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"> function printPDF(){ var pdf = document.getElementById("pdfDoc").contentWindow; pdf.focus(); pdf.print(); } </script> <%- end -%>

I''m writing an upload script for contact management, but having encoding issues: #=> Encoding::UndefinedConversionError: "\xFA" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 I will not always know the encoding supplied, and this is the result of `some_string.encode("UTF-8")` I have also tried .force_encoding("UTF-8") to no avail. For now I''m simply trying to