From: Kouhei Sutou <kou@...>
Date: 2006-11-16T11:28:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails view as PDF... suggestions?

Hi,

2006/11/16, J. B. Rainsberger <jbrains762@gmail.com>:

> I am about to do some research tomorrow, but if any of you has an
> obvious answer, then that would help. I am looking to build PDFs from
> Rails views, and I'd like some guidance on how to go about it.

> I want to put placeholders, both text and images, onto a template and
> end up with a PDF. I'm pretty open about how that all happens, so feel
> free to make wild suggestions. The only important constraint I can think
> of is that layout (meaning spacing) matters, so relying on a browser
> rendering HTML is probably not an option. The template will be a kind of
> background on which the placeholders will be laid out, and I imagine
> it's the template that will be the tricky part.

My suggestion is the following:

  1. make a SVG for template with Illustrator, Inkscape and so on
  2. substitute placeholders in the SVG by ERB, Amrita and so on
  3. generate PDF from the substituted SVG.
      (See [ruby-talk:225127])

# You can't use PDF::Writer for this suggestion.

Thanks,
--
kou