Thank you so much for your help!
I am finally able to install pdftk. I have a question about how to send
pdf to browser directly.
my code is here:
pdf_output = `pdftk #{filename} fill_form #{fdf.path} output`
respond_to do |format|
format.pdf do
send_data pdf_output, :filename => filename,
:type => "application/pdf"
end
end
But the browser can not open the pdf. It says it is empty.
What is the correct way to do this?
Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 22:24 +0100, John Wu wrote:
>> Thanks for the response.
>>
>> I want to narrow down the problem. It seems to me that rjb can not load
>> iText even though I installed pdf-stampers as a gem.
>>
>> I have looked at prawn but it doesn't have the features I wanted. There
>> is a bug about installing pdftk on snow leopard.
> ----
> seems to me that my original suggestion was by far the easiest solution
> and didn't require rjb, java or itext. It simply required a class for
> Fdf and a web server somewhere (could even be the 'public' directory on
> your rails server) to serve up the PDF document which is dynamically
> loaded when the end user opens the FDF document.
>
> I didn't know that pdftk wasn't an option on Macintosh but I am not a
> Macintosh fan so I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. Now that I
> think about it, pdftk also requires itext so I am wondering if the
> problem with pdftk running on your Macintosh is getting itext to run.
> What I do recall was that pdftk was entirely useful to me because once I
> could assemble and disassemble PDF's and FDF's, it all became clear to
> me.
>
> pdf-stamper requires a functional rjb which means that you must have a
> working ruby/java bridge connection and I suspect that is one of your
> issues. Also, it seems to me that there is no reason to put any part of
> itext or rjb in your lib/ directory and it might make matters worse.
>
> Craig
>
>
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