I have footer text that needs to stay at the bottom of the page: "If you have any questions regarding your order, you may contact us". How would I position it absolutely?
Here's one way from the docs:
file = "lazy_bounding_boxes.pdf"
Prawn::Document.generate(file, :skip_page_creation => true) do
point = [bounds.right-50, bounds.bottom + 25]
page_counter = lazy_bounding_box(point, :width => 50) do
text "Page: #{page_count}"
end
10.times do
start_new_page
text "Some text"
page_counter.draw
end
end
Related
Let's say we want to display a title on the first page that takes up the top half of the page. The bottom half of the page should then fill up with our article text, and the text should continue to flow over into the subsequent pages until it runs out:
This is a pretty basic layout scenario but I don't understand how one would implement it in Prawn.
Here's some example code derived from their online documentation:
pdf = Prawn::Document.new do
text "The Prince", :align => :center, :size => 48
text "Niccolò Machiavelli", :align => :center, :size => 20
move_down 42
column_box([0, cursor], :columns => 3, :width => bounds.width) do
text((<<-END.gsub(/\s+/, ' ') + "\n\n") * 20)
All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled,
have been and are either Republics or Princedoms. Princedoms are either
hereditary, in which the bla bla bla bla .....
END
end
end.render
but that will just continue to show the title space for every page:
What's the right way to do this?
I have been fighting with this same problem. I ended up subclassing ColumnBox and adding a helper to invoke it like so:
module Prawn
class Document
def reflow_column_box(*args, &block)
init_column_box(block) do |parent_box|
map_to_absolute!(args[0])
#bounding_box = ReflowColumnBox.new(self, parent_box, *args)
end
end
private
class ReflowColumnBox < ColumnBox
def move_past_bottom
#current_column = (#current_column + 1) % #columns
#document.y = #y
if 0 == #current_column
#y = #parent.absolute_top
#document.start_new_page
end
end
end
end
end
Then it is invoked exactly like a normal column box, but on the next page break will reflow to the parents bounding box. Change your line:
column_box([0, cursor], :columns => 3, :width => bounds.width) do
to
reflow_column_box([0, cursor], :columns => 3, :width => bounds.width) do
Hope it helps you. Prawn is pretty low level, which is a two-edged sword, it sometimes fails to do what you need, but the tools are there to extend and build more complicated structures.
I know this is old, but I thought I'd share that a new option has been added to fix this in v0.14.0.
:reflow_margins is an option that sets column boxes to fill their parent boxes on new page creation.
column_box(reflow_margins: true, columns: 3)
So, the column_box method creates a bounding box. The documented behavior of the bounding box is that it starts at the same position as on the previous page if it changes to the next page. So the behavior you are seeing is basically correct, also not what you want. The suggested workaround I have found by googling is to use a span instead, because spans do not have this behavior.
The problem now is, how to build text columns with spans? They don't seem to support spans natively. I tried to build a small script that mimicks columns with spans. It creates one span for each column and aligns them accordingly. Then, the text is written with text_box, which has the overflow: :truncate option. This makes the method return the text that did not fit in the text box, so that this text can then be rendered in the next column. The code probably needs some tweaking, but it should be enough to demonstrate how to do this.
require 'prawn'
text_to_write = ((<<-END.gsub(/\s+/, ' ') + "\n\n") * 20)
All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled,
have been and are either Republics or Princedoms. Princedoms are either
hereditary, in which the bla bla bla bla .....
END
pdf = Prawn::Document.generate("test.pdf") do
text "The Prince", :align => :center, :size => 48
text "Niccolò Machiavelli", :align => :center, :size => 20
move_down 42
starting_y = cursor
starting_page = page_number
span(bounds.width / 3, position: :left) do
text_to_write = text_box text_to_write, at: [bounds.left, 0], overflow: :truncate
end
go_to_page(starting_page)
move_cursor_to(starting_y)
span(bounds.width / 3, position: :center) do
text_to_write = text_box text_to_write, at: [bounds.left, 0], overflow: :truncate
end
go_to_page(starting_page)
move_cursor_to(starting_y)
span(bounds.width / 3, position: :right) do
text_box text_to_write, at: [bounds.left, 0]
end
end
I know this is not an ideal solution. However, this was the best I could come up with.
Use floats.
float do
span((bounds.width / 3) - 20, :position => :left) do
# Row Table Code
end
end
float do
span((bounds.width / 3) - 20, :position => :center) do
# Row Table Code
end
end
float do
span((bounds.width / 3) - 20, :position => :right) do
# Row Table Code
end
end
Use Prawns grid layout instead. It is very well documented...and easier to control your layout.
I am generating a document with data that flows onto each subsequent page, each page has a standard header. However, when I use repeat(:all) to put the header on each page, I find that on every page but the first page, the next content is not being moved down by the size of the header banner I have put on the page.
My code for generating the banner:
class SmartsoftPdf < Prawn::Document
BOX_MARGIN = 30
RHYTHM = 10
INNER_MARGIN = 30
# Colors
#
BLACK = "000000"
LIGHT_GRAY = "F2F2F2"
GRAY = "DDDDDD"
DARK_GRAY = "333333"
BROWN = "A4441C"
ORANGE = "F28157"
LIGHT_GOLD = "FBFBBE"
DARK_GOLD = "EBE389"
BLUE = "08C"
GREEN = "00ff00"
RED = "ff0000"
def show_header(text,date)
header_box do
image "#{Rails.root}/app/assets/images/smart_records_logo_h60.png", :height => 40
draw_text text,
:at => [80,25], :size => 12, :style => :bold, :color => BLUE
draw_text "Date: #{ausDate(date)}",
:at => [bounds.right - 100,bounds.top - 15], :size => 10 if date
end
end
def header_box(&block)
bounding_box([-bounds.absolute_left, cursor + BOX_MARGIN + 8],
:width => bounds.absolute_left + bounds.absolute_right,
:height => BOX_MARGIN*2) do
fill_color LIGHT_GRAY
fill_rectangle([bounds.left, bounds.top],
bounds.right,
bounds.top - bounds.bottom)
fill_color BLACK
move_down(RHYTHM)
indent(BOX_MARGIN, &block)
end
stroke_color GRAY
stroke_horizontal_line(-BOX_MARGIN, bounds.width + BOX_MARGIN, :at => cursor)
stroke_color BLACK
move_down(RHYTHM*4)
end
end
Then within the pdf generation itself I do:
repeat(:all) do
show_header("Custom Report",DateTime.now())
end
However, when I start putting content onto the pages, I expect when the content overflows onto the next page that the content will show up after the header. I'm finding that the header overlaps the content instead.
Here is an image which illustrates the problem: http://i.imgur.com/mSy2but.png
Am I building the header box incorrectly? Do I need to do something additional to make it so that the content which spills into the next page gets pushed down the appropriate amount?
Okay. I have solved this myself. Most recent version of Prawn has a better way to handle this case. When you use repeat(:all) the page is reopened AFTER document creation and your content creation items are then added. This doesn't push the page down. The correct way to add this header to every page is to use the "canvas" method which allows you to operate out of the bounds of the page margin. Use canvas to draw a box at the top of the page, and set the top_margin of the page to push all content below the banner.
canvas do
bounding_box([bounds.left,bounds.top],
:width => bounds.absolute_left + bounds.absolute_right,
:height => BOX_MARGIN*2) do
fill_color LIGHT_GRAY
fill_rectangle([bounds.left, bounds.top],
bounds.right,
bounds.top - bounds.bottom)
fill_color BLACK
move_down(RHYTHM)
indent(BOX_MARGIN, &block)
end
stroke_color GRAY
stroke_horizontal_line(-BOX_MARGIN, bounds.width + BOX_MARGIN, :at => cursor)
stroke_color BLACK
end
at document creation...
def initialize(options = {})
super(:page_layout => :landscape,:top_margin => HEIGHT_OF_BANNER)
end
I'm looking for a way to render a pdf document with footnotes, where the footnote text appears in the footer of the same page as the footnote reference (as opposed to end of document). This kind of footnotes appears in books, e.g. where translator's comments are. Being able to link the footnote ref with footnote text is optional.
So far I looked at Prawn and PDFKit, but I cannot seem to find a straightforward solution.
This is a sample of what I'm trying to do: footnote sample
And this is what I've come up with using Prawn. Obviously this needs more work to cover corner cases. I'm wondering if it's worth to go further down that route or maybe try something completely different, like latex (haven't used it with ruby).
Prawn::Document.generate("foo.pdf",:page_size => 'A4') do
#read 150 lorem ipsum records of various length
records = File.read(
Rails.root.join("lib/assets/lorem_ipsum_paragraphs.txt")
).split("\n").reject(&:blank?)
#assign some random footnotes to the paragraphs
footnotes = {
1 => '* ' + records[120],
2 => '* ' + records[54],
11 => '* ' + records[2]
}
#this array will hold the current footnotes to draw
#the assumption being we'll draw them on the current page as soon as we
#reach the part of the page where we need to fit those
footnotes_to_draw = []
#this will hold the amount of space required to draw the footnotes
space_needed = 0
for i in 0..records.length
str = records[i]
if footnotes.keys.include? i
str += '*'#this one has a footnote attached
footnotes_to_draw << footnotes[i]
space_needed += (height_of(footnotes[i]) + 15)
end
text "#{str}"
if space_needed > 0
#that means we will need to draw a footer on this page
space_available = cursor
puts "space needed: #{space_needed}, space available: #{space_available}"
#check if we can still draw the next record, or now's the time'
unless space_available - space_needed > height_of(records[i+1])
puts "draw footer now"
bounding_box [0,space_needed], :width => bounds.width, :height => space_needed do
stroke_horizontal_rule
footnotes_to_draw.each do |footnote|
pad(10){text footnote}
end
end
#reset current footnotes
footnotes_to_draw = []
space_needed = 0
move_down space_needed
end
end
end
end
I've got this as my code
openAll = File.open('N:\Josh\Blondie\db.txt')
allNumbers = Array.new
allNumbers=[]
openAll.each_line {|line|
allNumbers.push line
}
puts allNumbers
and I'd like to be able to display the output of this code in a new window with Ruby Shoes, I can't seem to get it to display anything though. The contents of the file are names and phone numbers.
Any ideas?
Here's an example of outputting text to a shoes window. Using a puts statement just outputs to the shell, not to the Shoes app.
Shoes.app :title => "GUI RAW file converter, for the CLI challenged",
:resizable => true do
background white
stack do
flow {
background gray, :height => 30
caption "Caption", :margin => 8, :stroke => white
stack {
para 'This is a fancy line I just printed to the window'
####### Here's an example line you could use to put out the array...
allNumbers.each do |number|
para "#{number}"
end
}
}
end
end
I guess you should use the method Kernel#alert instead of Kernel#puts.
http://shoesrb.com/manual/Built-in.html
Shoes.app do
flow do
file = "something with variable length"
para "Loading #{file}: "
progress :width => -300
end
end
As you can see from the code I am trying to display a progress bar that goes from the end of the text until the right edge of the application window.
When the text has a fixed length this solution works but it doesn't once the text changes length in the above fragment: there will be either too little or too much space for the progress bar.
Is there a solution to this problem?
I tried asking the para element it's width but it is 0???
As I mentioned before, you have to get the width of the textblock after it is calculated. Try this:
Shoes.app do
flow do
file = "something with variable length"
#p = para "Loading #{file}: "
#prog = progress
start do
#prog.width = #prog.parent.width - #p.width
end
end
button 'Change text!' do
text = #p.text
#p.text = text + '1'
#prog.width = #prog.parent.width - #p.width
end
end