On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > My experience has been that I ate up what would have been a lot of the $3k price by using wkhtmltopdf. Definitely issues with installation (going from mac to ubuntu), issues with rendering on ubuntu (requiring need to install a static binary which patches QT), inconsistencies as to whether it renders links or not (I found that using the gems that my wkhtmltopdf was not rendering links, so I dropped using the gems and went to use wkhtmltopdf directly)... anyhow, I did write a couple blog posts on the subject which maybe would be helpful: http://blog.structuralartistry.com/post/2316402105/using-wkhtmltopdf-with-ruby-and-rails http://blog.structuralartistry.com/post/2327213260/installing-wkhtmltopdf-on-ubuntu-server > > > > > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- 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.
