David Kahn wrote in post #974766:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Nice posts! I wish you had written them back when I was experimenting.
>>
>> I don't remember all the details of the problems I ran into. Prawn has
>> a different language (not HTML) and has terrible diagnostic messages
>> and documentation, so you can change a small thing and suddenly have
>> no output and just have to experiment until you figure out what it's
>> doing.
>>
>
> Timely thread... I was planning to implement Prawn today on an new
> project
> and not use wkhtmltopdf.... but oh god, I have to learn another DSL :(

Prawn markup is easy enough.  What the hell is wrong with learning a 
DSL?  Both with this and with Cucumber, you say "learning a DSL" like 
it's a bad thing.

Anyway, if you use prawn_format, you can control Prawn with HTML, though 
I don't know how well that works.

>
> Wkhtmltopdf starting to look a lot happier right now!

Best,
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Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
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