is it a rails app? if so, and even not, you may check out prawn and prawnto gems. then in your controller you can use respond_to format.pdf and return a pdf to the browser.
if it is an open source project, princeXML is a free license, I think. They only charge for commercial products. jed On Oct 16, 12:18 am, [email protected] wrote: > Yes, wkhtmltopdf is doing well, only installation procedure was complex, > and we got a static binary package with x-server installation , but right > now if i embed that in our code its converting only sites urls pages to pdf > ie wkhtmltopdfwww.google.comgoogle.pdf works fine also with hebrew > sites :-), but if I render my database content and want to convert that, > its not in proper, specifically hebrew, greek content., even if I save my > database stored content in an html file(UTF-8 encoded), and execute through > command line ie wkhtmltopdf hebrew.html hebrew.pdf, its not able to > convert. It means that,non-latin content is not properly saving into the > database. I need to check with that. This is happening in Ubuntu. > > On Oct 16, 2009 6:48am, Doug Sparling <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks, Luis. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 15, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Luis Felipe Campo [email protected]> wrote: > > 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-fly... > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
