use open office and the odf-report gem to produce state of the art
pdf documents. this example rails app shows you the way.

prerequisites
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- JRuby
- http://github.com/sandrods/odf-report
- download the jodconverter (http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/jodconverter)
  and extract it to the {RAILS_ROOT}/jars directory
- install open office and start it in headless mode

  mac: ./soffice -headless -accept="socket,host=0,port=8100,tcpNoDelay=1;urp"
  win: soffice -headless -accept=socket,host=0,port=8100,tcpNoDelay=1;urp

more information
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this app is featured in the december issue of the german railsway magazine
(http://it-republik.de/railsway).


have fun !