ktulasi
Joined: 21 Oct 2009
Posts: 30
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 Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:19 am Post subject: xml to pdf generation |
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Hi,
Prince xml is a command line program that converts given xml,html and css to pdf documents.
Installation of Prince:
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Download the prince from http://www.princexml.com/download/
1.Log into root
2. Change directory to prince path.(cd prince 7.0)
3.sudo ./install.sh
Now,it installed.
Check it, in your command prompt.
prince (your html file name) -o output.pdf
it generates a pdf.
Its very simple to generate pdf by this.We can apply styles,we can go with images also(which the css and images should be in the same html file path).
And in the other way to generate pdf is princely plugin.
We can use princely plugin,which also generates pdf.princely is a wrapper around Prince Api.
In this we write normal html views and princely will generate a pdf.
Installing princely plugin,
ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/mbleigh/princely.git
For the princely plugin to generate pdf we can apply stylesheets.
In princely first Princely object should be created.
To render_to_string we can apply parameters as templates, stylesheets and layouts.
send_data(),it takes parameters as the given input like template,layout and stylesheets. and filename, and changes to the pdf with the given file name..
def example
princely = Princely.new()
html_string = render_to_string(:template => 'user/index.html.erb',:stylesheets => "styles.css")
send_data(
princely.pdf_from_string(html_string),
:filename => 'new',
:type => 'application/pdf'
)
end
From the example method,
a new Princely object is created and assigned to a variable princely.then, a html_string variable is assigned with templates,stylesheets and layout with render_to_string.then, by send_data method it converts the given html to pdf document.
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