# Easiest RoR - PDF solution (based on HTML and CSS)

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 30, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-ror-pdf-solution-based-on-html-and-css/152179 "2008-10-30T22:04:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![paco.onrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@paco.onrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paco.onrails)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-ror-pdf-solution-based-on-html-and-css/152179/1 "2008-10-30T22:04:20Z")

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Hello, what solution you can recommend me?

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**Author:** ![paco.onrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@paco.onrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paco.onrails)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-ror-pdf-solution-based-on-html-and-css/152179/2 "2008-10-31T14:34:53Z")

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On 30 Oct 2008, at 22:03, paco.onrails wrote:

> Hello, what solution you can recommend me?

> **[Prince - Convert HTML to PDF with CSS](https://www.princexml.com/)**
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> Convert HTML documents to PDF. Beautiful printing with CSS. Support for JavaScript and SVG.

[http://sublog.subimage.com/2007/05/29/html-css-to-pdf-using-ruby-on-rails](http://sublog.subimage.com/2007/05/29/html-css-to-pdf-using-ruby-on-rails)

Be prepared for the hefty price tag though. However, it works  
flawlessly.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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**Author:** ![paco.onrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@paco.onrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paco.onrails)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-ror-pdf-solution-based-on-html-and-css/152179/3 "2008-10-31T17:25:40Z")

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If you don’t mind using java, you can use the flying saucer library in  
an external application and call it inside your application. I wrote a  
post about this a long time ago. The problem it’s in spanish but I think  
you can get the idea:

> **[Blog / dagi3d](https://dagi3d.net/blog)**
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> Personal blog of Borja Martin

Regards

Peter De Berdt escribió:

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**Author:** ![paco.onrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@paco.onrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paco.onrails)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-ror-pdf-solution-based-on-html-and-css/152179/4 "2008-10-31T17:34:29Z")

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I use HTMLdoc on [www.feelmyskills.com](http://www.feelmyskills.com) and it works quite well.  
Ridiculously  
easy to implement and you get to use HTML.

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**Author:** ![paco.onrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@paco.onrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paco.onrails)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-ror-pdf-solution-based-on-html-and-css/152179/5 "2008-11-04T19:46:33Z")

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Thanks for your suggestions, I have htmldoc working good on my  
application.

Paco