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| Pdfkit | prawn-rails | |
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| 4 | 1 | |
| 2,919 | 142 | |
| 0.3% | - | |
| 2.5 | 4.1 | |
| 8 months ago | 4 months ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Pdfkit
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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.
prawn-rails
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Good resources to learn how to dynamically generate pdf's in Rails ?
You can build PDF using prawn-rails if you prefer a declarative approach (and don't mind using GPLed code).
What are some alternatives?
Wicked Pdf - PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails
kramdown - kramdown is a fast, pure Ruby Markdown superset converter, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.
puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome
asciidoctor-pdf - :page_with_curl: Asciidoctor PDF: A native PDF converter for AsciiDoc based on Asciidoctor and Prawn, written entirely in Ruby.
Prawn - Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby
WKHTMLToPDF - Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)
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
Gimli - Utility for converting markup files to pdf files