Squid vs Prawn

Squid

A Ruby library to plot charts in PDF files (by nullscreen)

#PDF #Prawn #Ruby #Graph #Chart #Graphs #Charts #Report #Gem

Source Code

fullscreen.github.io

Prawn

Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby (by prawnpdf)

#PDF #Ruby #pdf-generator #Prawn

Source Code

prawnpdf.org

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Squid		Prawn
	Project
0	Mentions	7
217	Stars	4,430
-0.5%	Growth	0.6%
0.0	Activity	1.6
2 months ago	Latest Commit	16 days ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	CNRI Python Open Source GPL Compatible License Agreement

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

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 2022-03-24.

Invoicing gem implementation
2 projects | reddit.com/r/rubyonrails | 24 Mar 2022

Prawn pdf: https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn
Working on Script to auto-generate templates, help needed
4 projects | reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox | 13 Jan 2022

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.
Creating PDFs in a Ruby on Rails application
6 projects | dev.to | 26 Oct 2021

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.
What libraries do you miss from other languages?
29 projects | reddit.com/r/rust | 11 Sep 2021

On this note, Ruby’s Prawn is great at the writing half and I miss it in pretty much every other language.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Squid and Prawn you can also consider the following projects:

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

HexaPDF - Versatile PDF creation and manipulation for Ruby

Grover - A Ruby gem to transform HTML into PDFs, PNGs or JPEGs using Google Puppeteer/Chromium

CombinePDF - A Pure ruby library to merge PDF files, number pages and maybe more...

Shrimp - a phantomjs based pdf renderer

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.

Gimli - Utility for converting markup files to 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)