HTML / CSS to PDF using Ruby on Rails

Ever tried to save a web page and send it to someone? What about printing a web page? Both pretty much suck.

A lot of people are talking about printing with HTML and CSS these days but what they don’t tell you is the following:

With CSS you can’t…

• Determine where page breaks happen.
• Set page size or type (landscape or portrait).
• Print background colors…some browsers don’t even print images.
• Set page footers.

Wow, that’s lame.

Ever tried sending someone a web page? Not a link, but the actual web page. It doesn’t work well at all.

http://sublog.subimage.com/2007/05/29/html-css-to-pdf-using-ruby-on-rails