similar to: WickedPDF vs PDFKit vs. Prawn, etc.

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 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 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 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

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 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

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

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, 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

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

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 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 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 am pretty new at rails and seem to be stuck on an issue. Trying to find a way to get me app admin to create a form on our rails app. These would include: - Select form control type - Select required validation - Select price change if selected How should I even start going at this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk"

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

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 = []