princexml

Dynamically Generate Editable PDF

Is there a way to create an editable PDF programmatically? By editable, I mean you can click in a text area and type in your name, that kind of thing. I'm using Ruby and have found PrinceXML and Princely to be nice projects. I'm wondering if they could do that? ...

Jekyll documentation to PDF with TOC

I would like to write documentation using Jekyll with HTML and PDF outputs. Html can have a navigation but the PDF should have table of contents. Is there a free and easy way to do that? The HTML part is easy but I would like to use @media print CSS for making the PDF file. I have a few ideas how to do this. Use PrinceXML, unfortuna...

Is Prince the best way to create PDFs in Ruby on Rails?

After several Google searches, it appears that the way to create PDFs in Rails from HTML and CSS (versus a new markup language) is to use Prince. With licensing at $3800 for my non-big-commercial app, I'm wondering if this is, in fact, consensus or people have an alternative they can share the whats and hows. ...

Prince PDF footer not displaying

I'm generating a PDF using Prince. I'm using the below stylesheet (part of a much larger css file) to include a footer on each page containing page numbers, but the footer doesn't appear. So the question is, what am I doing wrong? @page { size: A4; margin: 24mm 22mm; padding: 0; @bottom-left { content: "Page " counter(...

How to display a table row once per page only?

Hello, I am trying to display every odd instance of a table row, however there is another table intervening. The (simplified) structure is: <div class="question03"> <table class="trendgraph"> <thead> <tr class="q3_pageheader">....</tr> <tr>...</tr> </thead> <tbody>...</tbody> </ta...