Just to briefly revive this thread: the guys at relevance have shifted from
Prince to wkhtmltopdf (mainly it seems to save money, not due to lacking
features):
http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2010/06/15/rethinking-pdf-creation-in-ruby.html
- and they wrote their own gem to help:
http://github.com/jdpace/PDFKit

- Korny (who hasn't used either, but thought this might be of interest)

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Jet Abe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Tim's gem is great but for Jruby env only I think :)
>
>
> theres another one acts_as_flying_saucer which should work with system
> commands.
>
>
> On Apr 29, 6:04 pm, Hugh Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Tim Riley wrote a gem to help with this:
> >
> > http://github.com/timriley/saucerly
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Jet Abe <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > Another suggestion:
> >
> > > Extract your Flying saucer code to a Sinatra app running Jruby.
> >
> > > After using Prince PDF before using Flying Saucer I felt I could have
> > > easily save the $$.
> >
> > > Thanks
> > > Jet
> >
> > > On Apr 28, 10:30 pm, David Parry <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Thanks everyone for the feedback!
> >
> > > > I'm going to persevere with the wkhtmltopdf installation on Solaris
> for a
> > > bit longer, and if that can be nailed down in a reasonable length of
> time,
> > > then that's probably the way I'll go.
> >
> > > > Otherwise, it sounds like the preference will be Prince then
> > > flyingsaucer...
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