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PDF generation from HTML page for Rails [closed]

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I am looking for a tool to convert HTML view pages to PDF from Rails. I want the styles to be intact and should be able to identify CSS styles. I have heard of Prince XML and Wicked PDF. I want to know the advantages and disadvantages of using one of them. Also, I want to know whether the rendering of PDF has any problems with regard to the style(whether style will be properly rendered). If there is any other tools, please inform about them.

Thanks, Prince

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rubyprince Avatar asked Mar 04 '11 13:03

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PDFkit is pretty nice from what I've seen, but I'm a big fan of wicked_pdf for the fine-grained control you can get over your documents.

PrinceXML and princely are great, but expensive. DocRaptor is a great web service that can let you dip your toes in, but the only things prince really does better than the free wkhtmltopdf-based solutions are its ability to properly do page-breaks without cutting table rows and repeating headers.

Disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers of wicked_pdf, and good friends with the people who run DocRaptor.

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Unixmonkey Avatar answered Oct 04 '22 07:10

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