That's a fabulous answer. I wouldn't be asking if I could convince my customers that a PDF would do. They need to be able to edit the document after it is generated.
-1 for helpfulness On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:38:01 +0800, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> wrote: > > Simon Macneall wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions for generating a word doc from a linux >> rails application? > > Yes: don't do it. Word documents have no place on the Web -- they don't > reliably preserve formatting and they don't play nice with Web browsers. > Generate a PDF file instead; prawn works well for this. > > [...] >> Thanks >> Simon > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koser > http://www.marnen.org > mar...@marnen.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
