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We use shrimp(https://github.com/adjust/shrimp) which internally uses phantomjs. It works well but you will need to do the page break yourself which can become a pain.


Congrats Paras


I run a Saas app called ReportGarden(http://reportgarden.com). It is currently my primary focus.

Our stack includes Rails+Postgresql+Delayed jobs+Pusher


I'm working on a highly requested feature at http://reportgarden.com for templates and automatic reports


Is there a tool that I can use to determine such bottlenecks on my website?



Visual Website Optimizer


I disagree, If we are dealing with simple invoices and stuff. Once you start dealing with reports containing charts, it all goes haywire


PrinceXML doesn't support a lot of the Html5 and CSS3. Canvas support doesnt exist, so I cant print charts.


I havent tried charts with princexml, but flying-saucer has capability to do custom rendering. So if you want, you can use a service to get image of your chart and then render that in the pdf as image.


Our service has built in charts support. Check out Pagify and let me if it is something you will use?


Its a terribly painful. I have tried every single one of the options. I am still finding it extremely difficult to get it working. Once I managed to get it to print to pdf, then started the bigger problem 'Paging'.

Paging is quite painful. I am writing my own code to split tables to fit into pages.

If you can solve this problem. I would gladly pay.


We are looking into dynamic layout where tables can be split. It would be great to work along side you. Can I have your contact?


Oh man, if you can solve it for me, I will be eternally grateful. You can email me at ashok (at) reportgarden (dot) com


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