Re: [Rails] Re: HTML and CSS to PDF

On 13 May 2010 17:40, Jonathan Steel <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the great info Jeff.
>
> You raise the same points that I have raised in our team. It would be
> easier to convert html into a pdf instead of us spending the time to
> develop code using Prawn for custom views.
>
> Prince worked on a simple page, but when I tried it on a more
> complicated one I got a ton of errors like the following:
>
> prince: /Users/jonathan/tmp/97.html:552: error: Opening and ending tag
> mismatch: div line 480 and html
>
> followed by just as many:
>
> prince: /Users/jonathan/tmp/97.html:552: error: Premature end of data in
> tag div line 372
>
> and ending with:
>
> prince: /Users/jonathan/tmp/97.html: error: could not load input file
> prince: error: no input documents to process

Did you check first that the html is valid by viewing the source
(view, page source or similar in browser) and copying the complete
text and pasting into w3c html validator (google will find it)?

Colin

>
>
> I tried out wkhtmltopdf and really like it. My only concern at this
> point is that I can't get page breaking to work, and I found some recent
> posts that would suggest it can't do page breaking.
>
> I'm looking at acts_as_flying_saucer now, but can't get it to work for
> complicated examples. I will probably be going with either prawn,
> wkhtmltopdf, or acts_as_flying_saucer.
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