similar to: PDF::Writer using rpdf templates..

I haven''t delved into the wonderful world of PDF::Writer yet, nor have I run across a need.. but I just had an idea I wanted to throw out there how hard would it be to create a .rpdf template plugin for rails? could be neat ;]

I know there''s wiki page on generating PDF[*], but that''s not really what I want. I don''t need to create arbitrary PDF. What I''d like to do is create PDF templates and fill in the blanks. Roughly, I''m looking for functionality akin to the mail merge feature of word processors, including conditional and repeated elements, say, table rows. Michael

hi all, im using ruby FPDF to generate my pdf. the problem im facing now is i need to use some new font that is not included in basic fpdf font. then i have generated the font using the makefont.rb. but then i dont know how to define the font_path in ruby. the font work great in PHP-FPDF. Is anybody there had solved the problem im facing now. ** sorry for my english ... -- Posted via

Hi list, I see almost all people here uses PDF::Writer for generating pdf documents with rails. I used it too at first, but am using both now and would like to see some advantages and shortfalls you came using each of these two packages. Here are my thoughts for now: PDF::Writer: - extensive documentation - writen using ruby conventions - easy to use - some bugs with embeding fonts prevent

I just had the strangest experience I can remember since I ran Windowsas my base OS.... Yesterday I was editing a file in the OO Writer (word processor). Today, it will not open. I copied it to a new file, and it opened fine. I edited it, updated it and closed it. Then I tried deleting the original file and copying the new one to the old name. Won't open. Renamed again, and it opens

Hello All: I have been working with <a href="http://ruby-pdf.rubyforge.org/pdf-writer/index.html">Austin Ziegler''s PDF::Writer</a> as a means to produce PDF documents from my Rails app. I am stumped on how to iterate through a collection of items and output them in a table format. The way I have tried it so far only returns the last item in the collection -

Hello, I''m having a problem with HTMLdoc and rails. I''ve set it up as per http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoGeneratePDFs and I''m using windows and version 1.8.24. I can make ps files without a problem and I can make pdfs using the stand alone app, however I can''t get the pdf created in RoR to work. Loading it into gsviewer I get the error

Anyone have any success using the PDF Form Fill referenced at http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoGeneratePDFs. I''m having all sorts of issues trying to get it working. Any help is appreciated. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Buenas tardes, Podria por favor alguien ayudarme a descifrar por que no es posible ver la grafica 3D cuando se utiliza lattice? Ya se que algunas veces los duendes hacen de las suyas, pero no estoy seguro de que este sea el caso. He reiniciado R, cambiado a RStudio y utilizado XP, pero no pasa "nada". Mi sessionInfo() es: R version 2.14.0 Patched (2011-11-12 r57642) Platform:

hello, I got a problem with plotting large time series, since I want to store the results in a .PDF file (I want to store several pages of plots). The PDF files get too large to be handled (> 10MB, one was even 200MB big). So I wonder, if there would be a possibilty to either - reduce the file size of the PDF - change the way the plot is generated to reduce the plot size? I use:

I''m trying to use the ajax.Updater function to send a message to the server and display an error message. Ok so far. However if the server detects no error with the data sent I want to open a PDF file in a new window. When I try to do this (using fpdf) the returned PDF is opened as text in the error div. Can anyone point me in the right direction. rgds gmcb

Hi all, since there isn''t good reporting for rails, I''m thinking to use jasper report instead. Can anyone tell me how can I integrated them together? especially how can I pass parameter from rails to jasper report.

Been trying to use the short format for a collection in rhtml, i.e. <% collection.each {|x| puts x} %> Doesn''t seem to work though [outputs nothing] ? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Dear all, I'm looking for a function that calls the inverse F-distribution. Something equivalent to FINV in matlab or excel. Does anyone know if such a function already exists for R? (I haven't been able to find one.) Thanks for any leads. Best, Jennifer

Hi everyone, I am having the strangest thing on my debian server with raid1 configuration. Having it setup so that there are 2 partitions (both raid1) on one disk. On the first partition is debian/linux and the second the /home(this is about 270G. I am unable to map a share to the second partition. The error is just the same as if you create a share and edit a wrong "path ="

Hi, is it possible to store RHTML templates or partials in database? thanks, Bojan Mihelac -- Bojan Mihelac Informatika Mihelac, Bojan Mihelac s.p. | www.informatikamihelac.com -> tools, scripts, tricks from our code lab: http://source.mihelac.org

hello Everyone, would like to search this subject in the forms, but since search is disabled I am posting this one. Any insight is much appreciated. I am a newbie to ROR. Wondering what it takes to take a form that is filled by a user and generate a PDF on the fly for his to save or print. I am aware of some PDF libraries for PHP to accomplish this, but not quite sure how to get this done

This wins the 2007 award for strangest (or most amusing) log message: dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 13 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. It does, unfortunately, leave dovecot dead, which was pretty mysterious to me. Maybe it could re-exec instead?

Anybody thought abt an adapter for this? Obviously not in the purview of ActiveRecord but could have a similar interface.. i.e. CRUD + find [xpath] - Ruby binding does exist. Just curious. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Every now and then, mysqld (5.0.22) jumps to 95%+ cpu usage and stays there. Seems to be a common issue, as far as google can tell, but details are alarmingly vague, and some people seem to suggest that it''s a bad query causing it. How do I go about determining if it''s something my application is doing? martin