Is it possible to created PDF file for this book...?

[MyMerb]

Hi,

It would be nice if we can create and update weekly PDF file for this
book and upload it.

I would be happy to offer my weekly services to help others.

Pl. guide me, how to do it.. so that i can be of some help for the
community.

[Julio Javier CICCHELLI]

Hi there,

That's a good idea, indeed. I was thinking also that we should create
a eBook version so the book would be readable for handheld devices
such as iPhones, Kindler (or something like that...), etc.

I will check that during the weekend.

Best regards,
Javier.-

[Matt Aimonetti]

I didn't work on the bridge yet. I'm planning on using a JRuby bridge and flying saucer but I didn't get to it yet :(

Yehuda has a bridge available if you want to look at it.

- Matt

[Julio Javier Cicchelli]

I was thinking of a solution involving the Prawn library into the merb-book application, but that is just a thought.

Best regards,
Javier.-

[Carlo Pecchia]

Maybe you can take a look at what we have used for "RoR 2.1/2 - What's
new?" book:

http://github.com/carlopecchia/rails21-book/tree/master

(Kudos to Carlos Brando for the original work)

2009/1/23 Julio Javier Cicchelli <javier.c...@gmail.com>:

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[Gregory Brown]

On Jan 23, 3:01 am, Julio Javier Cicchelli

<javier.cicche...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was thinking of a solution involving the Prawn library into the merb-book
> application, but that is just a thought.

You might have some luck using Prawn::Format[0], but to be honest,
Prawn really isn't designed for book level typesetting. I use
asciidoc for my book (Ruby Best Practices)[1] and it works great.
But maybe it'd be too much work to convert all the markdown to
asciidoc... Is there really no markdown2pdf utility out there?
Consider also HTMLDoc.

-greg

[Gregory Brown]

> Consider also HTMLDoc[2].

Whoops. linkage:

[0] http://jamis.github.com/prawn-format/
[1] http://rubybestpractices.com (shameless plug but will eventually
be under CC license)
[2] http://www.htmldoc.org/

-greg

[Matt Aimonetti]

asciidoc is a total PITA, ask the rails guides guys :p

The mardown => PDF converter using jruby and flyingsaucer seems to work great for wycats' book.

- Matt

[Gregory Brown]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Matt Aimonetti <mattai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> asciidoc is a total PITA, ask the rails guides guys :p

Hmm... I've been having no trouble with it, what specifically do you
dislike about it?

-greg

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