PDF::SimpleTable

[Neha Chopra]

Is it possible to have a table inside another table in PDF.

 

[Austin Ziegler]

Is it possible to have a table inside another table in PDF.

Not using PDF::SimpleTable.

-austin

 

[Neha Chopra]

Not using PDF::SimpleTable.

-austin

then what can be another way of generating pdf in ruby and having a
table inside another table.

 

[Austin Ziegler]

then what can be another way of generating pdf in ruby and having a
table inside another table.

Find a formatter that can do that. Tables aren't a basic feature of
PDFs. SimpleTable is a simplified way of looking at a table and
drawing it on the page.

(Layout in general isn't a basic feature of PDFs. PDF documents are
just canvases linked together. Any meaning is provided by the reader.)

-austin

 

[John Joyce]

then what can be another way of generating pdf in ruby and having a
table inside another table.

You might consider scripting an app that is a page layout or design
app which can write pdf or print to pdf. You'll get more features.

 

[Andrea Fazzi]

Neha Chopra ha scritto:

then what can be another way of generating pdf in ruby and having a
table inside another table.

Please see:

* http://deplate.sourceforge.net/
* http://dokkit.rubyforge.org/ (a new release will be soon available)

With the two applications above you can get a pdf from a tex file. The
tex file is generated from an emacs-wiki formatted source file.

Hope this help,
Andrea

 

[Martin DeMello]

You might consider scripting an app that is a page layout or design
app which can write pdf or print to pdf. You'll get more features.

I've had good results using ruby to generate lout
[http://lout.sourceforge.net/] and then scripting the lout -> ps ->
pdf toolchain with system calls.

martin