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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

> @verkaufsliste=Verkaufsliste.create(@listes.vkdatum.to_s) I think it''s better to use strftime(''%d %B %Y'') for .to_s. strftime is a great function that you can redefine easily (in German for example ;) ++ o_O Pierre Marchet -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I use link_to_remote to create a link to trigger an ajax, things work fine, a new rhtml is created, however, the newly created rhtml doesn''t replace my old zone, it shows instead on top of my old zone...Does someone know why??? my code is like <table> <tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#" onclick="new Ajax.Updater(''zone1'',

I am working with the pmt function in the {mnormt} package, and i am getting negative values returned. the following is an example of one of my outputs: pmt(x = c(3.024960, -1.010898), mean = c(21.18844, 21.18844), S = matrix(c(.319,.139,.139,0.319), 2, 2),df = 42) # -6.585641e-18 Any help on why i'm getting negative numbers would be very much appreciated. THanks! -- View this message in

PDF generation Prawn http://github.com/sandal/prawn/tree/master pdf writer http://ruby-pdf.rubyforge.org/pdf-writer/ ruby fpdf http://zeropluszero.com/software/fpdf/ Prawn is very good and well maintained in terms of development and new features added regards Senthil http://blog.railsfactory.com -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

All, I need the Ruby equivalent of the Excel PMT function which will calculate a monthly payment amount given an interest rate, a number of months, and a present value of the loan amount. Anyone know where I can find such a beast? If someone can point me to the formula that Excel uses internally, that''s fine too. I know it isn''t very complicated, but I def. don''t

Hello, i read many many faq, docs, mailing lists archive, however smbclient command don't work with filenames/directories of a share(under win98) composed of accentued characters (i'm french, did you notice it with my english level :) ). my conf is: -OS: linux 2.4.17 with RH 7.1 -kernel option: CONFIG_SMB_NLS_DEFAULT=y CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE="cp850" (cp437 tried)

Full_Name: Jose Gaetan Pierre Version: 2.4.1 OS: Fedora Core 6 Submission from: (NULL) (196.27.87.14) I have been using R from within rpy for a while because I am more familiar with Python syntax. I first noticed this bug with R-2.4.0. Screendump: ------------------------------ >>> from rpy import * >>> beer = r.scan() 1: 3 4 1 1 3 4 3 3 1 3 2 1 2 1 2 3 2 3 1 1 1 1 4 3 1 26:

Puppet 3.2.4 is now available. 3.2.4 addresses two security vulnerabilties discovered in the 3.x series of Puppet. These vulnerabilities have been assigned Mitre CVE numbers CVE-2013-4956 and CVE-2013-4761. All users of Puppet 3.2.3 and earlier are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 3.2.4. For more information on these vulnerabilities, please visit http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4761

Hello, I have a problem with accentued characters return from a textarea I have 3 simple files to show example ( below ). index.rhml : If I put "?nial" inside the textarea, then submit to :action => post post.rhml : wrote ?nial 195 "\303\251nial" // params[:comment][:message] return => ?nial params[:comment][:message][1] return => 195 ! ( 195 is not

Hello, I have a question about IMAP : I want read a IMAP mailbox in my application. I have found 2 pages about this : http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToReceiveEmailsWithActionMailer/versions/203 http://www.codefetch.com/search?qy=login&lang=ruby But, Rails don''t want use ''net/imap''. So I can''t =( Thank you for your help pmt -- Posted via

In what R package(-s) can I find the entire set of financial functions that you can find in MS-Excel such as PMT, PPMT, FV and IPMT? Ciao Vittorio

Hello, I have some questions concerning encoding and package distribution. We develop the ade4 package. For some data sets included in the package, there are accentued character (e.g. ?,?...). The data sets have been saved using latin1 encoding, but some of us use utf-8 and can not see some data sets which contains accented chracters. e.g: librarry(ade4) data(rankrock) rankrock in this case,

Hello list, Still need your help configuring proxy infrastructure. Today, I really struggle configuring master passwords forwarding. What I want: master user can connect to any other account, on proxy. Could please somebody help me, I read both articles about this on wiki, but still can't connect :( What I did: on proxy: auth_master_user_separator=* passdb sql { args =

Greetings all I promised a summary of the responses that I got to my question: "Next year I will be teaching a third year course in applied statistics about 1/3 of which is multivariate statistics. I would be interested in hearing experiences from those who have taught multivariate statistics using R. Especially I am interested in the textbook that you used or recommended." There

Hello, I would like to know if the following problem can be solved using the survival package in R. I would like to perform a linear regression: Z=aX + bY + c a,b,c being constants to determine (with errors) X,Y,Z being measurement vectors. X being eventually censored. This problem has not been consistently addressed in my field (astronomy), that's why I need interdisciplinarity help!

Dear List In my short life as a beginning R-user i've encountered a following problem that i'm unable to solve myself: I have a database in MySQL containing table and field names as well as some data containing Polish accentuated characters (like ????), utf8-encoded. It works just fine with just any external query browser i can find, jdbc, odbc, native, whatever. Also mysql is happy

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

Hey, I have AIX5.2 running with en_US ( ISO8859-1) as charset (see smitty shot bellow). Change/Show Cultural Convention, Language, or Keyboard Primary CULTURAL convention ISO8859-1 English (United States) [en_US] + Primary LANGUAGE translation ISO8859-1 English (United States) [en_US]