[LRUG] Best way to generate a PDF

[David Burrows]

PDFKit does headers/footers, more info here
http://metaskills.net/2011/03/20/pdfkit-overview-and-advanced-usage/

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On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Richard Livsey <richard at livsey.org> wrote:

> I can't speak for PDFKit/wkhtmltopdf, but Flying Saucer supports
> pagination and page numbering etc…
>
> You can use all the page-break properties in CSS:
>
> http://flyingsaucerproject.github.com/flyingsaucer/r8/guide/users-guide-R8.html#xil_37
>
> It supports the paged media CSS3 module so you can do stuff like
>
> @page {
>   @top-right { content: "Page " counter(page); }
>
> }
>
>
> More detail on that can be found here:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page/#margin-boxes
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> On Tuesday, 12 February 2013 at 15:28, Luke Saunders wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestions. In my case I assume it's not an option to go
> via HTML as there is not really a concept of pages in HTML. So things like
> a separate title page, repeated headers, page numbers etc would be tricky
> right?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Luke
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Richard Livsey <richard at livsey.org(mailto:
> richard at livsey.org)> wrote:
> > > I've had good results with using Flying Saucer -
> https://code.google.com/p/flying-saucer
> > >
> > > It's Java, but easy to use with JRuby or just make a standalone
> executable and call out to that to generate PDFs from HTML & CSS.
> > > I found it much better than wkhtmltopdf for the kind of PDFs I was
> generating, but probably worth giving PDFKit a try first to see if that
> suits your needs.
> > >
> > > Cheers.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Richard Livsey
> > > Co-Founder, MinuteBase
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> > >
> > >
> > > On Tuesday, 12 February 2013 at 15:12, Mooktakim Ahmed wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hey,
> > > >
> > > > Recently i have used https://github.com/pdfkit/PDFKit. One good
> thing about it is that you can set it up as a middleware which translates
> HTML into PDF just by going to the .pdf extension.
> > > > It might not be good fit for you. But for me, it was a nice way to
> quickly get PDF generation working, without adding too much messy code.
> Especially good if you need to convert HTML to PDF.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Mooktakim Ahmed
> > > >
> > > > On 12 February 2013 15:06, Luke Saunders <luke at sketchconsulting.com(mailto:
> luke at sketchconsulting.com) (mailto:luke at sketchconsulting.com)> wrote:
> > > > > Hi LRUG
> > > > >
> > > > > Can anyone with recent experience in this recommend the best tool
> to use in order to generate a PDF from a Ruby (Rails) app?
> > > > >
> > > > > Said PDF will be an A4 document, with a title page, followed by
> 5-10 content pages each with a standard header / footer including page
> numbers. Content pages consist of headings and paragraphs, along with some
> embedded images.
> > > > >
> > > > > I used prawn (https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn) once to generate
> a business card sized PDF and that was fine, but I'm wondering if perhaps a
> markup, maybe like LaTeX would be wise to generate this kind of doc.
> > > > >
> > > > > Keen to make the right choice and I think making the wrong choice
> could eat a lot of time here.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > Luke.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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