On Mar 26, 2014, at 4:33 PM, Ganesh Ranganathan wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:51 AM, masta Blasta <[email protected]> wrote: > You need to MANUALLY turn your illustrator file into a template.pdf.erb > file (which is the same as a .html.erb file). You will need styles, > proper HTML, the whole works. > Then you make a controller action to accept the pdf mime type > respond_to do |format| > format.pdf {} > > then follow the instructions on the wicked_pdf gem for all the other > configurations. It's not a simple process because of the wkhtmltopdf > binary. > > Got it!! Thanks for the explanation. Would the same process that you > explained work in this way? > > 1) Create a layout in Indesign (not illustrator) > 2) Export the layout to Html/CSS. This is a built in feature > 3) Embed the HTML in the template.pdf.erb > 4) Supply the values dynamically in the template > 5) Generate the PDF > > >
You beat me to it. This is what I was going to recommend. You may find that you have a lot of cleanup needed to make the InDesign HTML (and CSS) less awful. But this should get you started. Walter > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CALFmRoG5DkLOqeReM1QXud-aJsA4Do1puMUSe2JaCJTz7a%3D-4g%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/2CA735FD-D5B3-45A3-9F49-B3C994A1AB6B%40wdstudio.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
