On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Walter Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com> wrote:
> > On Jun 3, 2011, at 9:58 AM, David Kahn wrote: > > >> >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:25 AM, paul h <p...@hollyer.me.uk> wrote: >> >> >> On Jun 3, 12:50 am, pdftrn <supp...@pdftron.com> wrote: >> > ANNOUNCING: >> > >> > PDFTron PDFNet SDK v.5.7. - A Ruby Extension module for all types of >> > PDF processing including rendering, conversion, editing, and creation. >> > >> > WHAT IT IS: >> > >> > PDFNet SDK is an amazingly comprehensive, high-quality PDF developer >> > toolkit for working with PDF files at all levels. Using the PDFNet PDF >> > library, developers can create powerful PDF solutions and applications >> > that can generate, manipulate, view, render and print PDF documents on >> > Windows, Mac, and Linux. >> > >> > Some of the feature highlights include: >> > >> > - PDF Rendering and rasterization >> > - PDF Editing >> > - PDF Creation from Xaml, HTML, XPS, EMF, .NET/GDI+, etc. >> > - PDF Printing >> > - PDF viewing and markup >> > - PDF Forms >> > - PDF Content Extraction >> > - PDF Redaction >> > - Silverlight Viewer for PDF >> > >> > For a high-level overview of available functionality please see: >> > http://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/features.html >> > >> > WHAT'S NEW ? >> > >> > Support for RUBY, PYTHON, and PHPhttp:// >> www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/whatsnew.html >> > >> > WHERE CAN I GET IT ? >> > >> > http://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/downloads.html >> > >> > WHERE CAN I GET SUPPORT ? >> > >> > http://groups.google.com/group/pdfnet-sdk >> > orhttp://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/support.html >> >> Started to look interesting until I saw the BUY button - $900US per >> licence per platform? >> >> Dev Env = Mac OS X >> Server = Linux >> >> Total to test then deploy = $1800US? (If I'm reading it right) >> >> I'm going to be needing a PDF solution for Ruby in the coming months, >> but I think I'd rather pay the owners of Prawn for a customized >> solution - if it doesn't _already_ do what I will need for FREE. >> >> If I remember right the other paid solution, Prince is about $5k. Not sure >> how this compares to it. Anyhow, I have found wkhtmltopdf to be a pretty >> good converter, and assuming it continues to grow and be maintaned is a nice >> project if you want to covert html to pdf. Prawn I bet is good but it felt >> like learning a whole new dsl --- and in my case since I already had some >> complex html it was not for me. >> >> > Prince is expensive, but not that expensive! > http://princexml.com/purchase/ I have used it on one very large .edu > project, and it does an amazing job. The thing I'm still curious about with > PDFNet is whether it's a desktop app or a server-side service. They're > marketing it as if it was the former (box photos etc.) but there's an API > like the latter. > Yeah. My guess is the license is per server. I used a program simialer when doing .NET work which was great converting html to pdf ... really painless... and it was about $500 and seemed a similar arrangement. Too bad it was only for windows. > > Walter > > -- > 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-talk@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. > > -- 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-talk@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.
