Doug you are right, you need to have a xhtml compilant page to generate de pdf
2009/10/15 Doug Sparling <[email protected]> > Ah, didn't see that mentioned in the blog post. > > I used iText (open source - Java) for some PDF stuff a few years ago. I > don't believe it supports html to pdf out of the box, but I had this article > bookmarked as well: > > > http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/06/26/generating-pdfs-with-flying-saucer-and-itext.html > > May not be what you want, but it's the only other thing I'd bookmarked for > further review. > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:45 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> princexml is not freeware.. so we can't try that. >> >> >> On Oct 15, 2009 6:59pm, [email protected] wrote: >> > Thanks for that, >> > >> > But to some extent I got succeeded with wkhtmltopdf, on centOS and >> ubuntu, but conversion of non latin characters like hebrew and greek files, >> is not properly formatting, but they are stored in db in their original and >> correct format, but when pdf is downloaded it is turning into some other >> characters..:( >> > >> > On Oct 15, 2009 6:47pm, Doug Sparling [email protected]> wrote: >> > > As I need to do the same thing fairly soon, I had a few other >> resources I've been meaning to look at closer: >> > > >> > > http://www.princexml.com/ >> > > >> http://jimneath.org/2009/02/16/creating-pdf-documents-in-ruby-on-rails/ >> > > >> > > >> > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Doug Sparling >> [email protected]> wrote: >> > > >> > > Oops, my bad, just reread your question - you need to go from html to >> pdf... >> > > >> > > >> > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Doug Sparling >> [email protected]> wrote: >> > > >> > > >> > > I have no idea if it does what you want, have you tried pdftohtml, >> based on Xpdf? I've used a different Xpdf tool, pdftotext quite >> successfully. It's been a while, but I believe it comes with Xpdf install. >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:13 PM, [email protected]> wrote: >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > Hi Friends, >> > > >> > > Is there any open source PDF converter, which converts html files into >> pdf, keeping the css and everything used in html file. I used >> pdfwriter,htmldoc, but returned with no luck. wkhtmltodoc cannot be >> installed properly on ubuntu or centOS. Please help. >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > Thanks, >> > > Santosh >> > > >> > > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ruby-on-rails-programming-with-passion" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ruby-on-rails-programming-with-passion+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-on-rails-programming-with-passion?hl=en?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
