Pdfkit vs Gimli

Pdfkit

A Ruby gem to transform HTML + CSS into PDFs using the command-line utility wkhtmltopdf (by pdfkit)

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Source Code

Gimli

Utility for converting markup files to pdf files (by walle)

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Source Code

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Pdfkit		Gimli
	Project
3	Mentions	0
2,858	Stars	533
0.1%	Growth	-
3.6	Activity	0.0
27 days ago	Latest Commit	almost 4 years ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	MIT License

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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 2021-08-30.

Good resources to learn how to dynamically generate pdf's in Rails ?
2 projects | reddit.com/r/rails | 30 Aug 2021

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).
Converting HTML to PDF using Rails
5 projects | dev.to | 7 Jun 2021

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.

Gimli

Posts with mentions or reviews of Gimli. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Gimli yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Pdfkit and Gimli you can also consider the following projects:

Wicked Pdf - PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails

Prawn - Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby

puppeteer - Headless Chrome Node.js API

HexaPDF - Versatile PDF creation and manipulation for Ruby

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

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

WKHTMLToPDF - Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)

Squid - A Ruby library to plot charts in PDF files

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.

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)

Pdfkit vs WKHTMLToPDF