acts_as_flying_saucer on Rails 3.1 and Heroku

Just quick post how to use acts_as_flying_saucer with rails 3.1 and Heroku. I was testing acts_as_flying_saucer with rails 3.1.It is working fine so far. but when i have added external style sheet it was hanging on dev mode. and later on i figure out it is external style sheet causing an issue. So i precomplied css and then try to generate pdf it is working. Now it is time to test on heroku. I am using cedar stack and ruby

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Generate Bookmark for PDF using act_as_flying_saucer

In previous article we have seen that how pdf is generated  using act_as_flying_saucer plugin. Following code snippets is used for generating pdf with bookmark . <bookmark name=”section 1″  href=”#section_1″> tag is used to generate bookmark. which contains name attribute for displaying name of bookmark. href attribute is used for navigation purpose. <bookmark> tag can be nested so it can be used for generating nested bookmark <bookmark> tag is wrapper with <bookmarks> tag. This tag placed in html header. Now in

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Password protected pdf in rails using act_as_flying_saucer

Pdf with password protected in rails In previous article we have seen that how pdf is generated  using act_as_flying_saucer plugin. Now  act_flying_saucer  has added support for  password protected pdf. To generate PDF with password protection just pass :password=>”xxx” to render_pdf method. You can install act_as_flying_saucer plugin For  further details you can visit article or visit http://github.com/amardaxini/act_as_flying_saucer

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Generate PDF Using Rails and Flying Saucer

Rails Pdf Plugin act_as_flying_saucer There are various ways to generate pdf documents in any language.In Rails we can use prawn library ,HtmlDoc,PrinceXml and many other library,using their api we can generate pdf document.Basically the primary goal is converting HTML web pages to PDF Document,without much changing existing CSS and HTML. Using the Flying Saucer Project we can achieve this.we can convert HTML + CSS to PDF documents without much changing HTML and CSS. It also support CSS 2 and many

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