The thing about flying saucer.
its Java, you need jruby
It fails if html is not correct and its REALLY slow

On 28 April 2010 17:06, Jet Abe <[email protected]> wrote:

> May I also suggest a free alternative called
> Flying Saucer
>
> https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net/
>
> Its a java library with IText support(JRuby if you want more
> possibilities) and there are plugins out there for doing the
> conversions for you.
>
>
> Search github for Acts_as_flying_saucer
>
>
> In essence, Its Prince PDf without the 4k price tag
>
> cheers..
> Abe
>
> On Apr 28, 5:00 pm, Bodaniel Jeanes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Prince is quite definitely the way to go. Extremely robust and
> > supports really handy CSS3 features which let you do things like add
> > headers and rooters to every page and customise how page nbers are
> > shown.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On 28/04/2010, at 6:29, David Parry <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Anyone got any recommendations for HTML/CSS to PDF conversion?
> >
> > > We started looking at Prawn, but we've got a whole lot of well-layed
> > > out views in HTML/CSS, and it would be heaps easier to just convert
> > > them.
> >
> > > Looked at WickedPDF / wkhtmltopdf, which works awesome locally...
> > > unfortunately, there isnt a binary for Solaris on our servers, and
> > > the install process is looking like it's going to be a spiral-f**k,
> > > so I'm looking for alternatives.
> >
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