Kouhei Sutou
11/16/2006 2:29:00 AM
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,
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kou