Covert HTML to PDF

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Hello Everyone,

I am working on a website where I am required to convert an HTML view into a PDF document. I have found some gems and plug-ins like PDF::Writer, but none of these are good for converting HTML and CSS to PDF file.

I found a gem called "Princely" which works with "PrinceXML". But PrinceXML library is not free and we don't have money to pay for it as we are non-profit.

Anyone who knows of a gem or plug-in that will best fit my scenario?

Thanks a lot!

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hi look to wkhtml2pdf

Ivan Nastyukhin dieinzige@me.com

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I was also going to suggest wkthml2pdf… but in the easy to use form of a plugin called wicked_pdf…

See this tutorial… http://snikt.net/index.php/2010/03/03/generating-pdfs-from-ruby-on-rails

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You could also just try and e-mail the guys at Prince and present them with your case and ask if they would be interested in sponsoring your non-profit project (in exchange for some kind of promotional banner or mentioning Prince perhaps).

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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its easy use pdf-kit )

Ivan Nastyukhin dieinzige@me.com

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Thanks Everyone for your suggestions. Appreciate your time and reply!

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Hi Everybody,

I am using wicked_pdf plugin and having a hard time to get it working. On windows XP, I get the error "fork() function is unimplemented on this machine" and on Mac OSX Snow Leopard, I get "Broken pipe" error.

Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks!

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Did you first install the wkhtmltopdf utility? it’s not installed automatically as part of the plugin because it’s platform-specific…

http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

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Hi Joshua ,

I did install wkhtmltopdf.

I have given pdfkit a try which is working very well if I give it an address like "http://google.com". Just don't know how to specify the address of a page from within my app. Giving address like "http://localhost:3000/test" is not working.

Here is the code for pdfkit:      format.pdf do         kit = PDFKit.new("http://google.com")         send_data(kit.to_pdf, :filename => "New.pdf", :type => 'application/pdf')       end

Thanks!

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http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2010/06/15/rethinking-pdf-creation-in-ruby.html

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If you are a non profit organization, you have a chance to obtain a nice html to pdf converting library - PD4ML for Ruby for free from http://pd4ml.com/. Just contact them.

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I use a PDF converter driver found on the internet . Install it and it becomes a selectable converter option.Then you can convert PDFs to many forms in any program at all, including Adobe Acrobat . Just open a PDF, select convert, and choice a form you want, then you can convert pdf to html and vice versa.the task will be finished in several seconds. if you haven't found a good choice , you can have a try. best wishes. http://www.rasteredge.com/how-to/vb-net-imaging/pdf-convert-html/