Although it's probably not ideal for a pure Ruby environment, I used Flying 
Saucer (a Java lib) under JRuby a few years ago. It's a lot like Prince but 
open source. I found it excellent for HTML/CSS to PDF conversion and it may 
well get you out of your Solaris pickle.

If you want to do the conversion as a background process, you could always call 
out to JRuby or even plain Java to run this, so as not to pollute your pure 
Ruby environment.

Cheers,
Josh

On 28/04/2010, at 5:29 AM, David Parry wrote:

> Anyone got any recommendations for HTML/CSS to PDF conversion?
> 
> We started looking at Prawn, but we've got a whole lot of well-layed out 
> views in HTML/CSS, and it would be heaps easier to just convert them.
> 
> Looked at WickedPDF / wkhtmltopdf, which works awesome locally... 
> unfortunately, there isnt a binary for Solaris on our servers, and the 
> install process is looking like it's going to be a spiral-f**k, so I'm 
> looking for alternatives.
> 
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