From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-04-28T00:14:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for thoughts and opinions on Ruport, and reporting in Ruby in general.

On 4/27/07, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com> wrote:

> I got it. You mean you don't have CSS available to you for PDF files?

Correct.  As far as I know there is no formattting facility for PDF
that reeks of cool, much less something standardized

> Interesting. On OS X it is a built in facility to print to PDF.
> CSS does itself present some formatting options for printing but
> they're not well implemented everywhere. The scaling options should
> be sufficient to generate nicely printable documents generally. I'm
> sure you know that though. but ... When a boss asks for a pdf they
> want a pdf.

Right,  we need to generate PDFs and email them as part of reports
that run in the middle of the night....

Doing html -> pdf is sometimes, but not always, a  good solution.