Waiting is typically an enormously displeasurable activity: It’s unproductive, boring, and even tense. And so, if you ask users to wait, many of them will refuse. According to a study by Forrester Research, almost half of consumers expect a site to load in two seconds—and if it takes longer than three, 40% leave. So, should […]
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If you're running a Rails operation, LaTeX isn't the most convenient approach for generating documents. There are some gems available, but it's really nice when the logic and the presentation are in the same language. That's what Prawn supplies.
First, we need to install the Prawn gem:
gem install prawn
We can verify that Prawn is working with the following test:
require "prawn"
Prawn::Document.generate("hello.pdf") do
text "Hello World!"
end
Most of Prawn's commands are fairly minimalistic and what you would expect:
require "prawn"
Prawn::Document.generate("styling_text.pdf") do
text "Default text styling"
text "Blue 16pt Helvetica", size: 16, font: "Helvetica", color: "0000FF"
text "Aligned Center", align: :center
font_size 12
font "Courier" do
text "Size 12 Courier"
font_size 10 do
text "Slightly smaller Courier"
end
end
text "Default font size 12"
font "Helvetica"
3.times do |i|
text "Helvetica with leading 10 line #{i}", leading: 10
end
end
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Do you have a local business page on Facebook? Want to reach more local customers? Facebook recently launched Professional Services, a directory that helps consumers find the best local businesses and services to fit their needs. In this article I’ll share how to use the Facebook Professional Services feature to boost visibility with local customers. [...]
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