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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 25, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-generate-a-pdf-from-html-erb-file/146785 "2008-08-25T13:42:51Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Abhishek\_shukla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Abhishek_shukla)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-generate-a-pdf-from-html-erb-file/146785/1 "2008-08-25T13:42:51Z")
Hello friends,
I have a task in which i need to generate a pdf file from the html.erb
file.
and seriously i don’t have any clue. So pleas help me out…
Thanks
abhishek
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**Author:**  [@Abhishek\_shukla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Abhishek_shukla)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-generate-a-pdf-from-html-erb-file/146785/2 "2008-08-25T13:58:07Z")
On 25 Aug 2008, at 13:42, Abhishek shukla wrote:
> I have a task in which i need to generate a pdf file from the
> html.erb file. and seriously i don’t have any clue. So pleas help me
> out…
Be prepared to shell out quite a bit of money for the exorbant license
fee, but:
[http://sublog.subimage.com/articles/2007/05/29/html-css-to-pdf-using-ruby-on-rails](http://sublog.subimage.com/articles/2007/05/29/html-css-to-pdf-using-ruby-on-rails)
Best regards
Peter De Berdt
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**Author:**  [@Abhishek\_shukla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Abhishek_shukla)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 10:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-generate-a-pdf-from-html-erb-file/146785/3 "2008-08-26T22:51:13Z")
Looks like maybe a job for PHP which has a nice class library for
doing PDF… Maybe somebody could port it to Rails?
~DC
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**Author:**  [@Abhishek\_shukla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Abhishek_shukla)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-generate-a-pdf-from-html-erb-file/146785/4 "2008-08-27T11:25:02Z")
On Aug 25, 1:42 pm, “Abhishek shukla” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> Hello friends,
> I have a task in which i need to generate a pdf file from the html.erb file.
> and seriously i don’t have any clue. So pleas help me out…
>
> Thanks
> abhishek
Have a look at
[http://code.google.com/p/cnruby/wiki/RailsPluginActiveFPDF](http://code.google.com/p/cnruby/wiki/RailsPluginActiveFPDF). I have
no experience using it, but it looks up to date and the templates are
ok (as far as pdf generation goes…), e.g. \.
Another option is to generate LaTeX documents using erb and post-
process these using pdflatex. Should be doable in less than 50 lines
of ruby, but IMO not practical unless you’re comfortable with LaTeX.
Isak