Ruby on Rails

On Mar 26, 2014, at 4:33 PM, Ganesh Ranganathan wrote:

>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:51 AM, masta Blasta <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> You need to MANUALLY turn your illustrator file into a template.pdf.erb
> file (which is the same as a .html.erb file). You will need styles,
> proper HTML, the whole works.
> Then you make a controller action to accept the pdf mime type
> respond_to do |format|
> format.pdf {}
>
> then follow the instructions on the wicked_pdf gem for all the other
> configurations. It's not a simple process because of the wkhtmltopdf
> binary.
>
> Got it!! Thanks for the explanation. Would the same process that you explained work in this way?
>
> 1) Create a layout in Indesign (not illustrator)
> 2) Export the layout to Html/CSS. This is a built in feature
> 3) Embed the HTML in the template.pdf.erb
> 4) Supply the values dynamically in the template
> 5) Generate the PDF
>
>
>

You beat me to it. This is what I was going to recommend. You may find that you have a lot of cleanup needed to make the InDesign HTML (and CSS) less awful. But this should get you started.

Walter

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