If 3rd party solution is good for you, you may want to 
consider http://pdfcrowd.com/. I used it before, it's working pretty well 
with JS charts and those.

Cheers,
Jim

On Wednesday, 7 November 2012 17:14:58 UTC+11, Tim McEwan wrote:
>
>  Hi all, 
>
> I want to automate the creation of around 100 PDFs with user data and 
> graphics generated by JS (charts mostly, but maybe some Raphael).  Each PDF 
> is an energy bill.  The whole environment can be controlled, so it doesn't 
> need to be client-side cross-platform or anything.  However, we'd like to 
> be able to package it up and have others use it, so the simpler the better.
>
> I've looked at Prawn, but I'd rather not have to draw everything from 
> first principles.  It seems wkhtmltopdf is a better bet so I tested it on 
> highcharts.com.  It does a good job <http://cl.ly/2l1c3C083u3N>, but not 
> as good as straight Safari <http://cl.ly/2Q0F0J0C022a>.  So I thought 
> perhaps I'd automate a browser instead, but that may not be so 
> simple<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11537103/how-to-handle-print-dialog-in-selenium>
> .
>
> Has anyone got any tips on the best way to go?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
>
>  

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