On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 22:24 +0100, John Wu wrote: > Thanks for the response. > > I want to narrow down the problem. It seems to me that rjb can not load > iText even though I installed pdf-stampers as a gem. > > I have looked at prawn but it doesn't have the features I wanted. There > is a bug about installing pdftk on snow leopard. ---- seems to me that my original suggestion was by far the easiest solution and didn't require rjb, java or itext. It simply required a class for Fdf and a web server somewhere (could even be the 'public' directory on your rails server) to serve up the PDF document which is dynamically loaded when the end user opens the FDF document.
I didn't know that pdftk wasn't an option on Macintosh but I am not a Macintosh fan so I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. Now that I think about it, pdftk also requires itext so I am wondering if the problem with pdftk running on your Macintosh is getting itext to run. What I do recall was that pdftk was entirely useful to me because once I could assemble and disassemble PDF's and FDF's, it all became clear to me. pdf-stamper requires a functional rjb which means that you must have a working ruby/java bridge connection and I suspect that is one of your issues. Also, it seems to me that there is no reason to put any part of itext or rjb in your lib/ directory and it might make matters worse. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
