HexaPDF
Versatile PDF creation and manipulation for Ruby (by gettalong)
Grover
A Ruby gem to transform HTML into PDFs, PNGs or JPEGs using Google Puppeteer/Chromium (by Studiosity)
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HexaPDF | Grover | |
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26 | 4 | |
1,181 | 857 | |
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9.3 | 6.0 | |
27 days ago | 12 days ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
AGPL-3.0, Nonstandard | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.
HexaPDF
Posts with mentions or reviews of HexaPDF.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-31.
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Question about Yard
An example for a very simple setup is the cmdparse gem documentation. It only has a few additional documentation files that accompany the main API documentation. The other end of the spectrum is the documentation for HexaPDF which encompasses many additional documentation files besides the API documentation and deeply integrates the API docs into the whole documentation website.
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I interviewed Mike Perham (of Sidekiq) on commercializing software, and quitting his job to work on Sidekiq full time. “by March 2014 I was making more money from Sidekiq Pro sales than my Clymb salary”
HexaPDF is a Ruby OSS library with a commercial version available and profitable.
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Features for HexaPDF table implementation
So I'm collecting feature ideas for that table implementation at https://github.com/gettalong/hexapdf/discussions/231.
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HexaPDF to extract text from PDF file
Hi there! I'm the author of HexaPDF.
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Benchmarking Ruby 2.6 to 3.2
git clone https://github.com/gettalong/hexapdf.git
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A pdf cutting / spliting program
You can use this HexaPDF script to do this:
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HexaPDF Extras - Additional functionality for the HexaPDF library
I have just released my new gem hexapdf-extras which provides additional functionality on top of the HexaPDF library.
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Multiple-page PDF to one-page PDF
You can use HexaPDF together with a small script to do this (see the third line on how to use the script):
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Understanding Text in PDF
TrueType subsetting mainly consists of generating the necessary glyph and various index tables, and copying over all the other necessary tables which don't need to be adjusted. See https://github.com/gettalong/hexapdf/blob/master/lib/hexapdf/font/true_type/subsetter.rb for what is needed to subset.
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What do you use ruby for?
for all my PDF processing needs, courtesy of HexaPDF,
Grover
Posts with mentions or reviews of Grover.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-26.
- A Ruby Gem to Transform HTML into PDFs, PNGs or JPEGs Using Puppeteer/Chromium
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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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Has anyone tried Grover to generate PDF files on Heroku?
I am looking for a PDF generation tool for a Rails project. I have looked Prawn, Wicked and PDFKit, but Grover seems to be the most easy to use. The only thing concerns me is: in order to run Grover on Heroku, I will have to add 2 additional build packs (one for node.js and one for puppeteer). Can someone share their experience on how will the extra build packs affect performance on Heroku? Because I really do not want to slow the app down. My use case is a styled HTML property list that will be mostly 2 pages long.
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Converting HTML to PDF using Rails
The gem I recommend is called Grover. It uses Puppeteer and Chromium to "print" an HTML page into a PDF. So your PDF will look exactly how your page looks in Google Chrome's print preview. This will also allow you to reuse CSS from your app rather than having to write specific CSS just for your PDF exports.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing HexaPDF and Grover you can also consider the following projects:
Prawn - Fast, Nimble PDF Writer 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
CombinePDF - A Pure ruby library to merge PDF files, number pages and maybe more...
Wisepdf - Wkhtmltopdf wrapper done right
Squid - A Ruby library to plot charts in PDF files
RGhost - RGhost is a document creation and conversion API. It uses the Ghostscript framework for the format conversion, utilizes EPS templates and is optimized to work with larger documents. Support(PDF,PS,GIF,TIF,PNG,JPG,etc)