I want to generate a pdf calendar, and I have incoming calendar data
from a json interface. Any advice on things I should investigate to
implement this?
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In my research, there are two main ways to generate a PDF:
1. use an html -> pdf generator such as wkhtmltopdf or princexml (and invoke the command line from ruby)
2. use another library (Prawn seems to be the big one for ruby). You'll have to learn the markup syntax for Prawn, but I think if you're willing to get over that hurdle then you have more control than if you used an html-> pdf generator.
-Kristina
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On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:47:36 +0900, Dan Quach wrote:
I want to generate a pdf calendar, and I have incoming calendar data
from a json interface. Any advice on things I should investigate to
implement this?
the ruby bindings to libharu may be useful also
http://libharu.org/wiki/Documentation/Examples
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On 12/13/2011 3:58 PM, K Clair wrote:
In my research, there are two main ways to generate a PDF:
1. use an html -> pdf generator such as wkhtmltopdf or princexml (and invoke the command line from ruby)
2. use another library (Prawn seems to be the big one for ruby). You'll have to learn the markup syntax for Prawn, but I think if you're willing to get over that hurdle then you have more control than if you used an html-> pdf generator.
-Kristina
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:47:36 +0900, Dan Quach wrote:
I want to generate a pdf calendar, and I have incoming calendar data
from a json interface. Any advice on things I should investigate to
implement this?
K Clair wrote in post #1036592:
In my research, there are two main ways to generate a PDF:
1. use an html -> pdf generator such as wkhtmltopdf or princexml (and
invoke the command line from ruby)2. use another library (Prawn seems to be the big one for ruby). You'll
have to learn the markup syntax for Prawn, but I think if you're
willing
to get over that hurdle then you have more control than if you used an
html-> pdf generator.-Kristina
Interesting. Do the html to pdf generators use the html 5 standard when
rendering? I'm curious how they do this since each browser implements
like css styles very differently.
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Each one does it differently, so you'd have to look at the individual specs. I don't remember the details anymore, but I remember when I was researching this that wkhtmltopdf and princexml support different css rules. One example I can remember is that until the most recent release, princexml didn't support the 'nowrap' property. Princexml also makes heavy use of some print media specific css things, such as @page, and css can be used to change the flow of the page.
Not sure about html5!
-Kristina
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On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:11:33 +0900, Dan Quach wrote:
K Clair wrote in post #1036592:
In my research, there are two main ways to generate a PDF:
1. use an html -> pdf generator such as wkhtmltopdf or princexml (and
invoke the command line from ruby)2. use another library (Prawn seems to be the big one for ruby). You'll
have to learn the markup syntax for Prawn, but I think if you're
willing
to get over that hurdle then you have more control than if you used an
html-> pdf generator.-Kristina
Interesting. Do the html to pdf generators use the html 5 standard when
rendering? I'm curious how they do this since each browser implements
like css styles very differently.