Walter Davis wrote in post #974668: > On Jan 13, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Paul wrote: > >> I've played around with all three and have found them all to work if >> you don't care about exact placement of items. They tend to limit your >> formatting choices. The largest pain I had was getting wkhtmltopdf >> installed and acting the same way on my server as it did on my >> development machine. (The problems, after struggling with >> dependencies, had to do with scaling and fonts.) >> >> For my app, I found it easier to not use any of the gems, but just >> call `wkhtmltopdf ...` directly, but it depends on what you are trying >> to do. > > I've used PrinceXML in another (PHP) project. If you can find a > wrapper in Rails to use that, I recommend it heartily.
That would be the Princely plugin. Or just shell out to it. > It can make > really lovely CSS-controlled PDF layouts. It's costly, but very very > effective. My understanding is that wk is nearly as good without the $3000 price tag, but I've never used either. > > Walter Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
