resume.md VS HexaPDF

For an example of a similar project, check out mikepqr/resume.md that parses a markdown file to produce html and pdf.

It's worth mentioning that I generated it with resume.md which is a great tool. It was recommended by the author. I'm not a frontend dev, but even I could tweak the CSS enough so that I could fine-tune the format to my taste.

For my use case[0], I found weasyprint easier to work with, it gives better results (in the sense they looked more like what I got when I saved to PDF using a browser), and it's more actively maintained.

But in the end, I switched[1] to "chrome --headless --print-to-pdf-no-header", since it reproduces browser behavior pretty much by definition and, while it's a colossal dependency, it's also trivial for non-technical users to install.

[0] https://github.com/mikepqr/resume.md

An example for a very simple setup is the cmdparse gem documentation. It only has a few additional documentation files that accompany the main API documentation. The other end of the spectrum is the documentation for HexaPDF which encompasses many additional documentation files besides the API documentation and deeply integrates the API docs into the whole documentation website.

HexaPDF is a Ruby OSS library with a commercial version available and profitable.

So I'm collecting feature ideas for that table implementation at https://github.com/gettalong/hexapdf/discussions/231.

Hi there! I'm the author of HexaPDF.

git clone https://github.com/gettalong/hexapdf.git

You can use this HexaPDF script to do this:

I have just released my new gem hexapdf-extras which provides additional functionality on top of the HexaPDF library.

You can use HexaPDF together with a small script to do this (see the third line on how to use the script):

TrueType subsetting mainly consists of generating the necessary glyph and various index tables, and copying over all the other necessary tables which don't need to be adjusted. See https://github.com/gettalong/hexapdf/blob/master/lib/hexapdf/font/true_type/subsetter.rb for what is needed to subset.

for all my PDF processing needs, courtesy of HexaPDF,