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ruby-on-rails-3.2wicked-pdf
RodM
RodM

Reputation: 426

wicked_pdf footer not rendering

I have these installed and using Mountain Lion:

I installed qt and wkhtmltopdf using brew install --devel --build-patched-qt wkhtmltopdf

I am using Rails 3.2 and have these code in my controller:

render pdf: Time.now.to_i.to_s, 
       layout: false, 
       template: 'invoices/download', 
       disposition: 'attachment',
       page_size: 'A4',
       footer: {
                  left: Time.now.to_i.to_s, 
                  center: Time.now.to_i.to_s, 
                  right: Time.now.to_i.to_s
                }

The content is being generated fine, but no footer. Any suggestion?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 766

Answers (1)

Deej
Deej

Reputation: 5352

At some stage this can be an issue with the way you've installed wkhtmltopdf as it may not generate the necessary footers. Also noticed your on OSx so I believe you would've downloaded wkhtmltopdf here and then cd to correct directory by doing something cd /usr/local/bin && ln -s /Applications/wkhtmltopdf.app/Contents/MacOS/wkhtmltopdf wkhtmltopdf.

I believe inside your respond block you should have something like: 

 respond_to do |format|
      format.html
      format.pdf do
        render :pdf => "#{DateTime.now.to_s}",
                :footer=> { left: Time.now.to_s, 
                            center: Time.now.to_s, 
                            right: Time.now.to_s
              }

Further to this is was a bit strange you were doing Time.now.to_i.to_s to from my experience this doesn't make sense and sure as this is not going to output what you want. Because:

Time.now.to_i: This returns the value of the time as an integer of seconds. 

Time.now.to_i 
#=> "1270968656.89607"

Time.now.to_s: Returns value of time as a string. 

Time.now.to_s 
#=> "2012-11-10 18:16:12 +0100"

When you are trying to do Time.now.to_i.to_s when this is executed it will get the time and execute the first method which is to_i and to illustrate what your output is Imgur - Output. Because from my understanding what you are trying to do is list the time convert it to an integer and then convert it to a string. There is no need for this just simply do Time.now.to_s that will do. As for your problem regarding the footer issue with wicked_pdf this can be down to your installation. As earlier mentioned take a look at the link supplied, also revise your setup and consider the suggested setup I've provided. Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

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