Getting started generating PDFs with Prince
By: Johnathon Wright on: June 11, 2010
Download and uncompress Prince:
jw@gallifrey:~$ curl http://www.princexml.com/download/prince-7.1-linux.tar.gz -o prince.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 3879k 100 3879k 0 0 763k 0 0:00:05 0:00:05 --:--:-- 940k jw@gallifrey:~$ tar -xzf prince.tar.gz jw@gallifrey:~$ cd prince-7.1-linux/ jw@gallifrey:~/prince-7.1-linux$ ls jw@gallifrey:~/prince-7.1-linux$ install.sh lib LICENSE README jw@gallifrey:~/prince-7.1-linux$ sudo ./install.sh Prince 7.1
Install directory This is the directory in which Prince 7.1 will be installed. Press Enter to accept the default directory or enter an alternative. [/usr/local]:
Installing Prince 7.1... Creating directories... Installing files...
Installation complete. Thank you for choosing Prince 7.1, we hope you find it useful. Please visit http://www.princexml.com for updates and development news.
Based on the "documentation":http://dev.physioagereporting.com/sample.pdf
jw@gallifrey:~/prince-7.1-linux$ prince http://app.local/reports/my_report.html -o /code/client/app/public/sample.pdf
IT WORKS! but it's kinda ugly.
add pdf.css based on the "boom microformat":http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom/ ... add .cover-page, .chapter, .cover-notes, etc
---css @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.75in; }
p, .cover-notes { line-height: 1.7em; }
.titlepage, div.chapter, div.appendix { page-break-after: always; }
.titlepage { page: blank; margin: 1in 0.75in 0.75in; text-align: center; }
.document-heading { font-size: 0.5in; padding: 1in 0; }
.cover-notes{ font-size: 0.3in; }
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { page-break-after: avoid; }
h1 { string-set: document-heading content(); }
h2 { string-set: chapter-heading content(); }
q::before { content: "\201C" }
q::after { content: "\201D" }
/* This can be alternated so that left and right facing pages are opposites; In my case, this isn't useful, so I merged it to one. */
@page { @top-left { content: string(document-heading, first);; } @top-right { content: string(chapter-heading, first); } @bottom { content: counter(page); } }
/* don't show document title in the heading on the cover page. */ @page blank :right { @top-left { content: normal; }
}
jw@gallifrey:~/prince-7.1-linux$ prince http://app.local/reports/my_report.html -s http://app.local/stylesheets/pdf.css -o /code/client/app/public/sample.pdf
jw@gallifrey:~$ jw@gallifrey:~$ sudo gem install princely Successfully installed princely-1.2.5 1 gem installed