Pdfkit
A Ruby gem to transform HTML + CSS into PDFs using the command-line utility wkhtmltopdf (by pdfkit)
Prawn
Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby (by prawnpdf)
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| Pdfkit | Prawn | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 7 | |
| 2,858 | 4,407 | |
| 0.1% | 0.3% | |
| 3.6 | 3.1 | |
| 28 days ago | 13 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | CNRI Python Open Source GPL Compatible License Agreement |
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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.
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 2021-08-30.
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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.
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.
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Invoicing gem implementation
Prawn pdf: https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn
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Working on Script to auto-generate templates, help needed
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.
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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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What libraries do you miss from other languages?
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 Pdfkit and Prawn you can also consider the following projects:
Wicked Pdf - PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails
HexaPDF - Versatile PDF creation and manipulation for Ruby
puppeteer - Headless Chrome Node.js API
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...
Squid - A Ruby library to plot charts in PDF files
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.