Export to PDF

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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

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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