![]() It also provides few helpers for including stylesheets and javascript files with layouts.īut if you want to use assets with Rails asset pipeline in your app then you might have to use gem helpers which base64 encodes your assets and add it inline to your page. As it performs conversion at machine level, you have to be cautious regarding fonts, CSS and external javascript library which you are using as you have to provide absolute paths for all resources. This gem can be used for HTML to PDF conversion as it has many ways to convert HTML content to PDF directly using utility methods which it provides. The only thing which we can can't directly do with Prawn is HTML to PDF conversion. It is very rich in it's features as it also has good support for fonts, images, vector drawing, graphics and many other things. It's like complete DSL which can process text given by you with defined operations using DSL methods to generate PDF. This is basically Ruby library for PDF generation. I will briefly explain the key differences which I see in all 3 gems which I analysed, the gem which I used and then few tricks which I used in my PDF generation feature. There are multiple gems available for generating PDF files but identifying one out of those really depends on your exact requirement like what you want? and what you don't want? I also compared 3 different gems which are mostly used for PDF conversion in Ruby. There was different features around the generation of PDF document but major work was involved in generation of PDF out of HTML which is also not difficult task when we have rich ruby gems for help. Similar requirement we had in one of our web application where we wanted to provide option to user to generate single or bulk PDF files out of any HTML templates they have in their account. 4 min read Generating PDF files from HTML contentĪlthough nowadays we have Email, SMS services integrated in most of web applications, sometimes there could be need of documentation for future reference which users may want to reuse later based on their need.
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