From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-11-04T03:33:46+09:00
Subject: Re: PDF::Writer - measure size of a section before rendering

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@marnen.org> wrote:
> Max Williams wrote:
>> Thanks a lot for that.
>>
>> I've actually switched to using acts_as_flying_saucer for pdf generation
>> - it does very good conversion from html to pdf, so no more
>> hand-building as was the case with pdf writer.
>
> I didn't know there was a Flying Saucer plugin.  I'll have to look at it
> -- I really like Prawn, but doing my PDF files in HTML would be nice.

Yeah, if you want easy HTML to PDF, Flying Saucer is definitely the way to go.
Prawn is more for if you want absolute control over how your document
is rendered.

-greg