CombinePDF
A Pure ruby library to merge PDF files, number pages and maybe more... (by boazsegev)
Prawn
Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby (by prawnpdf)
| CombinePDF | Prawn | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 11 | |
| 759 | 4,738 | |
| 0.5% | 0.1% | |
| 6.6 | 5.3 | |
| 3 months ago | 2 months ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 - Strongly Reciprocal |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
CombinePDF
Posts with mentions or reviews of CombinePDF.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-30.
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How to write on a PDF using Ruby
CombinePDF: The Ruby gem that combines PDFs
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Combining PDFs in a Ruby on Rails application
CombinePDF is a pure Ruby solution to parse PDF files and combine (merge) them with other PDF files, watermark them or stamp them.
Prawn
Posts with mentions or reviews of Prawn.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-30.
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How to write on a PDF using Ruby
Prawn: The fast, nimble PDF writer for Ruby
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Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>
I'm a little confused by your comment. I've been using the Prawn library to generate PDFs on the backend for a side project I am working on for quite sometime https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn
(Admittedly, the PDFs I generate are most certainly not beautiful, so maybe that's the difference)
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Working with PDFs in Ruby
to view the email preview (note the PDF attachment included in the email):  ## Prawn PDF [Prawn PDF](https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn) is a pure Ruby PDF- generation library that comes packed with features, such as PNG and JPG image embeds, generated file encryption, right-to-left text rendering, a way to incorporate outlines for easy document navigation, and a lot more. Prawn comes with its own DSL, which drives its powerful PDF generation abilities. ### When to Use Prawn Although it's not a fully featured report generation library like the well-known [Jasper Reports](https://community.jaspersoft.com/), with a bit of work using it's powerful DSL, you can generate some really cool and rather complex PDF documents with Prawn. Even so, it's important to note that Prawn isn't everything. If you want to generate PDFs from HTML, then you should look elsewhere, as the gem provides very limited support for inline styling, something of a hurdle if you're working with rich HTML documents. ### Installing and Using Prawn To get started with Prawn, install it with this command: ```bash gem install prawn
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Need help
Is the Prawn gem something you can utilize?
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Invoicing gem implementation
Prawn pdf: https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn
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Working on Script to auto-generate templates, help needed
Javascript isn't really my thing, so first I had a go with the Prawn library in ruby, but now I'm hacking LuaTex via Fennel and having a blast.
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Creating PDFs in a Ruby on Rails application
You have a few options when trying to create a PDF in a Rails environment. Prawn and Wicked PDF have been around for quite a while. I have been using both gems and they work fine. However, they have a few limitations that can make it difficult to handle more complex PDFs. I recently discovered Grover, which can remediate some of this inflexibility in creating PDFs.
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What libraries do you miss from other languages?
On this note, Ruby’s Prawn is great at the writing half and I miss it in pretty much every other language.
- Status Update 2021 (Prawn PDF Ruby Gem)
- Status Update 2021 (PrawnPDF OSS)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing CombinePDF and Prawn you can also consider the following projects:
HexaPDF - Versatile PDF creation and manipulation for Ruby
Wicked Pdf - PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails
Pdfkit - A Ruby gem to transform HTML + CSS into PDFs using the command-line utility wkhtmltopdf