Sounds like the underlying html/css in your "complicated" test might not be valid, such that prince is saying that it isn't able to generate the pdf because it can't parse/process that html/css? You might want to run that html/css thru a validator first, like http://validator.w3.org/ , to first fix any invalid html/css and then try it again.
As for flyingsaucer, I looked into using that a while back but just didn't like all of the dependencies required to get it working at the time, especially for ruby/rails project. But, maybe if you already have a jvm installed, or are already running jruby, or .... Whatever you end up using to gen your pdfs with, another tool you might find useful is pdftk -- http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ -- for any pre-/post-processing of your pdfs, like splitting pdfs into pages, stitching pdf pages together, adding watermarks, etc. Jeff On May 13, 9:40 am, Jonathan Steel <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Thanks for the great info Jeff. > > You raise the same points that I have raised in our team. It would be > easier to convert html into a pdf instead of us spending the time to > develop code using Prawn for custom views. > > Prince worked on a simple page, but when I tried it on a more > complicated one I got a ton of errors like the following: > > prince: /Users/jonathan/tmp/97.html:552: error: Opening and ending tag > mismatch: div line 480 and html > > followed by just as many: > > prince: /Users/jonathan/tmp/97.html:552: error: Premature end of data in > tag div line 372 > > and ending with: > > prince: /Users/jonathan/tmp/97.html: error: could not load input file > prince: error: no input documents to process > > I tried out wkhtmltopdf and really like it. My only concern at this > point is that I can't get page breaking to work, and I found some recent > posts that would suggest it can't do page breaking. > > I'm looking at acts_as_flying_saucer now, but can't get it to work for > complicated examples. I will probably be going with either prawn, > wkhtmltopdf, or acts_as_flying_saucer. > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
