From: Holden Glova <dsafari@...>
Date: 2002-09-02T07:13:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby jobs

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On Mon, 02 Sep 2002 04:26, Tom Sawyer wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 09:57, Dossy wrote:
> > Funny, speaking of Ruby jobs, right now I'm paid by one of my
> > clients to write reports in Ruby.  They're all very printable.
> > For the one report that needed finer-grain control, it generates
> > a PDF using pdflib and the Ruby bindings for it ...
>
> that's not funny at all! in fact you may have made my day! could you
> elaborate a little more on how you create these reports.
>
> i thought pdflib was a commercial product, not open source. ? i have to
> take another look.

If you want to make PDFs from Ruby an alternative could be to use XSL FO and 
then run of several programs that can perform the transformation (Jakarta FOP 
comes to mind and there are others). Ruby can easily generate the .fo file 
for you :)

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Signed,
Holden Glova
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