Wisepdf
Pdfkit
Wisepdf | Pdfkit | |
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282 | 2,920 | |
- | 0.1% | |
0.0 | 2.5 | |
over 1 year ago | 8 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.
What are some alternatives?
Grover - A Ruby gem to transform HTML into PDFs, PNGs or JPEGs using Google Puppeteer/Chromium
Wicked Pdf - PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails
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)
puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome
Prawn - Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby
Shrimp - a phantomjs based pdf renderer
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