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Wicked PDF

A PDF generation plugin for Ruby on Rails

Wicked PDF uses the shell utility wkhtmltopdf to serve a PDF file to a user from HTML. In other words, rather than dealing with a PDF generation DSL of some sort, you simply write an HTML view as you would normally, and let Wicked take care of the hard stuff.

Installation

First, be sure to install wkhtmltopdf. Note that versions before 0.9.0 have problems on some machines with reading/writing to streams. This plugin relies on streams to communicate with wkhtmltopdf.

More information about wkhtmltopdf could be found here.

Next:

script/plugin install git://github.com/lleirborras/wicked_pdf.git
script/generate wicked_pdf

Usage

class ThingsController < ApplicationController
  def show
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html
      format.pdf do
        render :pdf => "file_name", 
               :template => "things/show.pdf.erb", # OPTIONAL
               :layout => "pdf.html", # OPTIONAL
               :wkhtmltopdf => '/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf', # OPTIONAL, path to binary
               :show_as_html => !params[:debug].blank?, #OPTIONAL, maybe you just want to allow debuging in development environment?
               :margin => {:top => SIZE, #OPTIONAL
                           :bottom  => SIZE, #OPTIONAL
                           :left  => SIZE, #OPTIONAL
                           :right  => SIZE}, #OPTIONAL
               :orientation => 'Landscape or Portrait', #OPTIONAL, default Portrait
               :page_size => 'A4, Letter, ...', #OPTIONAL, default A4
               :proxy => 'TEXT', #OPTIONAL
               :username => 'TEXT', #OPTIONAL
               :password => 'TEXT', #OPTIONAL
               :cover => 'URL', #OPTIONAL
               :dpi => "dpi", #OPTIONAL
               :encoding => "TEXT", #OPTIONAL
               :user_style_sheet => "URL", #OPTIONAL
               :redirect_delay => NUMBER, #OPTIONAL
               :zoom => FLOAT, #OPTIONAL
               :page_offset => NUMBER, #OPTIONAL
               :book => true,  #OPTIONAL
               :default_header => true,  #OPTIONAL
               :disable_javascript => true,  #OPTIONAL
               :greyscale => true,  #OPTIONAL 
               :lowquality => true,  #OPTIONAL
               :enable_plugins => true,  #OPTIONAL
               :disable_internal_links => true,  #OPTIONAL
               :disable_external_links => true,  #OPTIONAL
               :print_media_type => true,  #OPTIONAL
               :disable_smart_shrinking => true,  #OPTIONAL
               :use_xserver => true,  #OPTIONAL
               :no_background => true,  #OPTIONAL
               :header => {:html => {:template => "public/header.pdf.erb" OR :url => "www.header.bbb"}, #OPTIONAL
                           :center => "TEXT", #OPTIONAL
                           :font_name => "NAME", #OPTIONAL
                           :font_size => SIZE, #OPTIONAL
                           :left => "TEXT", #OPTIONAL
                           :right => "TEXT", #OPTIONAL
                           :spacing => REAL, #OPTIONAL
                           :line => true}, #OPTIONAL
               :footer => {:html => {:template => "public/header.pdf.erb" OR :url => "www.header.bbb"}, #OPTIONAL
                           :center => "TEXT", #OPTIONAL
                           :font_name => "NAME", #OPTIONAL
                           :font_size => SIZE, #OPTIONAL
                           :left => "TEXT", #OPTIONAL
                           :right => "TEXT", #OPTIONAL
                           :spacing => REAL, #OPTIONAL
                           :line => true}, #OPTIONAL
               :toc => {:font_name => "NAME", #OPTIONAL
                        :depth => LEVEL, #OPTIONAL
                        :header_text => "TEXT", #OPTIONAL
                        :header_fs => SIZE, #OPTIONAL
                        :l1_font_size => SIZE, #OPTIONAL 
                        :l2_font_size => SIZE, #OPTIONAL 
                        :l3_font_size => SIZE, #OPTIONAL
                        :l4_font_size => SIZE, #OPTIONAL
                        :l5_font_size => SIZE, #OPTIONAL
                        :l6_font_size => SIZE, #OPTIONAL
                        :l7_font_size => SIZE, #OPTIONAL
                        :l1_indentation => NUM, #OPTIONAL
                        :l2_indentation => NUM, #OPTIONAL
                        :l3_indentation => NUM, #OPTIONAL
                        :l4_indentation => NUM, #OPTIONAL
                        :l5_indentation => NUM, #OPTIONAL
                        :l6_indentation => NUM, #OPTIONAL
                        :l7_indentation => NUM, #OPTIONAL
                        :no_dots => true, #OPTIONAL
                        :disable_links => true, #OPTIONAL
                        :disable_back_links => true}, #OPTIONAL
               :outline => {:outline => true, #OPTIONAL
                            :outline_depth => LEVEL} #OPTIONAL
      end
    end
  end
end

By default, it will render without a layout (:layout => false) and the template for the current controller and action. (So, the template line in the above code is actually unnecessary.)

Styles

You must define absolute path's to CSS files, the best option is to use wicked_pdf_stylesheet_link_tag helper.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <%= wicked_pdf_stylesheet_link_tag "pdf" -%>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="content">
      <%= yield %>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Configuration

You can put your default configuration, applied to all pdf's at "wicked_pdf.rb" initializer.

Debugging

Now you can use a debug param on the URL that shows you the content of the pdf in plain html to design it faster.

First of all you must configure the render parameter ":show_as_html" and then just use it like normally but adding "debug=1" as a param:

http://localhost:3001/CONTROLLER/X.pdf?debug=1

Inspiration

You may have noticed: this plugin is heavily inspired by the PrinceXML plugin princely. PrinceXML's cost was prohibitive for me. So, with a little help from some friends (thanks jqr), I tracked down wkhtmltopdf, and here we are.

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