From: Gregory Brown Date: 2006-09-29T05:15:30+09:00 Subject: Re: rdoc -> pdf I reformatted your post a tiny bit, to make it eaier to respond to... hope you don't mind... On 9/28/06, Mariano Kamp wrote: > Hi, > > I found the below quoted message when searching for a pdf output > formatter for rdoc. > On 12/15/05, Austin Ziegler wrote: > > > The Pickaxe2 has a PDF version available for purchase from the > > Pragmatic Bookshelf. On the other hand, if someone wants to make a > > RDoc formatter using PDF::Writer, I'll try to provide what assistance > > I can. > > Ugh. This sounds like something that may need to go into Ruport. I > hate when that happens! > > Would people be interesting in being able to use rdoc formatting to > generate PDFs using Ruby Reports? If so... i'll put it on the dogpile > of features to be added this winter when I'm working full time on > Ruport for a couple weeks. Wow, this is an old message! We've completely rewritten Ruport since then. :) > Any idea if there has been progress made? We didn't get a roaring response of Yes! to this, so it went back the burner and actually slowly fell off the radar. At this point, we're all pretty much incredibly busy with other things in Ruport, so I can't promise that we'll get to this feature in the forseeable future. However, what we can offer is support for anyone interested in doing this. I've used htmldoc to convert html to pdf, and it'd be cool if we can get something more robust into Ruport. It might be better to attack it from the HTML to PDF direction rather than the rdoc to PDF direction, since it would be more general. (Then one could use textile,markdown,rdoc, whatever, convert to html and ruport could then render to PDF) If anyone wants to take the initiative on something like that, go ahead and catch up with us on the Ruport mailing list(http://lists.stonecode.org/listinfo.cgi/ruport-stonecode.org) or in #ruport on Freenode. All of our developers are currently tied down, but we can take the time to help get the information out there that would be needed for folks who wanted to build something like this. It's a neat idea, sorry we never got around to it. -Greg