i found this while i was navigating the web

http://sublog.subimage.com/articles/2007/05/29/html-css-to-pdf-using-ruby-on-rails

it's how to call prince from within rails

but it has a defect that i couldn't catch yet :

in prince.rb

when passing a UTF-8 string in line 68

pdf.puts(string)

the outputed pdf is garbled , which i think it's due to passing it.

is there any suggestion to make it accept utf8

?

I'm not sure what the situation is with this Ruby library, and would recommend contacting its developer directly to see what is going on.

same problem for me before. i changed template file to iso8859 encoding and it works for me.