Pdfkit
A Ruby gem to transform HTML + CSS into PDFs using the command-line utility wkhtmltopdf (by pdfkit)
Grover
A Ruby gem to transform HTML into PDFs, PNGs or JPEGs using Google Puppeteer/Chromium (by Studiosity)
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| Pdfkit | Grover | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 4 | |
| 2,917 | 857 | |
| 0.2% | 8.2% | |
| 2.5 | 6.0 | |
| 8 months ago | 12 days 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.
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.
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 Pdfkit and Grover you can also consider the following projects:
Wicked Pdf - PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails
puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome
Prawn - Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby
Wisepdf - Wkhtmltopdf wrapper done right
WKHTMLToPDF - Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)
CombinePDF - A Pure ruby library to merge PDF files, number pages and maybe more...
HexaPDF - Versatile PDF creation and manipulation for Ruby
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)