No I didn't, and I probably snapped a bit more than I should have, but you continually see people answering questions with negatives like that, and it irks me.
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:07:37 +0800, Philip Hallstrom <phi...@pjkh.com> wrote: > > Well, to be fair, you didn't specify that the file needed to be > editable upon download so Simon's solution is pretty reasonable. > > You might look into RTF. Some google searches seem to say that you > can embed images into that format. > > On Apr 20, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Simon Macneall wrote: > >> >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
