Squid
A Ruby library to plot charts in PDF files (by nullscreen)
Pdfkit
A Ruby gem to transform HTML + CSS into PDFs using the command-line utility wkhtmltopdf (by pdfkit)
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| Squid | Pdfkit | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 4 | |
| 219 | 2,919 | |
| 0.0% | 0.3% | |
| 2.7 | 2.5 | |
| about 1 year ago | 8 months ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | 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.
Squid
Posts with mentions or reviews of Squid.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Squid yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
Pdfkit
Posts with mentions or reviews of Pdfkit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-24.
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Working with PDFs in Ruby
Like the WickedPDF gem, the PDFkit gem uses wkhtmltopdf on the backend to convert plain HTML and CSS files into PDF documents.
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Solve network errors with PDFKit and wkhtmltopdf
In today's #10stips (where you learn how to solve coding issues within 10 seconds) we talk about the lovely PDFKit gem.
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Good resources to learn how to dynamically generate pdf's in Rails ?
Alternatively, there tools like pdfkit if you want to build off HTML pages (and are happy to deal with wkhtmltopdf and it's older style CSS).
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Converting HTML to PDF using Rails
A couple of popular gems to convert HTML to PDF in Rails are PDFKit and WickedPDF. They both use a command line utility called wkhtmltopdf under the hood; which uses WebKit to render a PDF from HTML.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Squid and Pdfkit 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
HexaPDF - Versatile PDF creation and manipulation for Ruby
puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome
Shrimp - a phantomjs based pdf renderer
Gimli - Utility for converting markup files to pdf files
WKHTMLToPDF - Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)
CombinePDF - A Pure ruby library to merge PDF files, number pages and maybe more...
Kitabu - A framework for creating e-books from Markdown using Ruby. Using the Prince PDF generator, you'll be able to get high quality PDFs. Also supports EPUB, Mobi, Text and HTML generation.