Devy,
How to export a dataset to PDF file. I wrote the following code for
You may consider switching to the prawn library, to generate your pdr.
See the railscast (10:04)
http://railscasts.com/episodes/153-pdfs-with-prawn
and its ascii version
http://asciicasts.com/episodes/153-pdfs-with-prawn
There is a short comparison/example of table → pdf with both libraries here :
http://groups.google.com/group/pdf-writer/browse_thread/thread/5bc8de74e1a7d3c5
Alain Ravet
Hi Alain
I tried prawn for pdf creation.
1. gem install prawn 2. script/plugin install git://github.com/thorny-sun/prawnto.git 2. In environment.rb file add the line config.gem 'prawn' 3. i wrote in the following code in "show.pdf.prawn" it's located in(/app/view/orders/show.pdf.prawn) pdf.text "Hello, World!" 4. In my controller is def show
end 5. http://localhost:3001/orders/show 6. In this aspect where to give the file name?
How to create simple pdf file using prawn library i followed this url but can create the simple file this format def show Prawn::Document.generate "hello-ttf.pdf" do fill_color "0000ff"
text "Hello World", :at => [200,720], :size => 32 text "This is chalkboard wrapping " * 20 end end
Regards R.Devi