PDFKit

Rails
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anyone uses a PDFKit to generate pdfs in rails? how i transform my
PDFKit.new(“

Hello Brazil

”) into a pdf file? i`d try but i dont
find anything about documentation how use a methods for generate pdfs,
any help? thanks a lot

Leo Caminha

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PDFKit.new(“

Hello Brazil

”).to_pdf

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 12:07 AM, leoncio caminha <

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On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Jatin kumar
[email protected]wrote:

PDFKit.new(“

Hello Brazil

”).to_pdf

Sorry for interruption.I tried it to .I am using rails 3.0.7.I pasted above
code in action of a button so that click on it can generate pdf.but i didn’t
work.

Output is:

heloPDFKit.new("

Hello Brazil
").to_pdf

thanks

amritpalpathakgne.wordpress.com

4

when i try this

<%= button_to “Teste”, PDFKit.new(“Hello Brazil”).to_pdf %>

its output me a error

ArgumentError (invalid byte sequence in UTF-8):
pdfkit (0.5.1) lib/pdfkit/middleware.rb:16:in call' <internal:prelude>:10:insynchronize’
/Users/leocaminha/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/httpserver.rb:111:in
service' /Users/leocaminha/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/httpserver.rb:70:inrun’
/Users/leocaminha/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/server.rb:183:in
`block in start_thread’

Em 26/06/2011, s 04:05, amritpal pathak escreveu:

5

Jatin I found it!

in your action on controller put like this
pdf = PDFKit.new(html_text)
send_data pdf.to_pdf, :filename => “name_of pdf.pdf”, :type => :pdf

and in your environment, put this
Mime::Type.register ‘application/pdf’, :pdf # to recognize pdf files
into application

works from me

but, I’m yet on lil problem: i don’t get generate a html header
repeating each page of pdfanyone?

Thanks a lot everyone!

Hugs!

@leocaminha

Em 26/06/2011, s 04:05, amritpal pathak escreveu:

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On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Leoncio C. <
[email protected]> wrote:

works from me

What you have found out are the basic steps to get PDFkit to work, and last
time I checked they were written on the install guide or something of
PDFkit.
Anyways, its good that you got it working.

but, I’m yet on lil problem: i don’t get generate a html header repeating
each page of pdfanyone?

I don’t get what you are asking.
Is it like it is generating pdf for each view you open.
Its a bug in the latest version of pdfkit, install the previous one, or
describe the whole scenario of problems that you are facing.