Comments on: Convert HTML to PDF Ruby on Rails

By: jomz

jomz — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:24:10 +0000

for the sake of people landing here from google, you should definitely have a look at PDFkit: https://github.com/jdpace/PDFKit

By: James Whiteforce

James Whiteforce — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:40:05 +0000

yeah and the Prawn package maintainer, Gregory Brown is quite an arrogant prick
who is quite up himself

By: Mark Duncan

Mark Duncan — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:22:39 +0000

I’ve had a lot of success using Flying Saucer
(https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net/) with ruby-java bridge (http://rjb.rubyforge.org/). It’s damn close to acid compliant and even includes some css3 stuff for page layout. Rjb doesn’t play nicely with passenger so I had to use backgroundrb on the live servers but compared to the learning curve/limitations of itext/prawn it looks by far the easiest way to go.

By: Kristian Mandrup

Kristian Mandrup — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:10:28 +0000

I am now working on a rework of prawn-assist called
prawn-html. Feel free to join in the effort or provide
feedback, suggestions etc ;)

By: Kristian Mandrup

Kristian Mandrup — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:54:22 +0000

One of my first gems was a kind of addon to
prawn-format which I called prawn-assist.

http://github.com/kristianmandrup/Prawn-assist

I am planning to update it one of these days,
converting it into a gem with a nice DSL.

It functions by stripping out a some html tags
which don’t have meaning for pdf generation, then
converts certain html tags to related prawn-format
tags and some prawn constructs. Works ok for simple
html cases. I know there are some css gems out
there which could be used in combination to apply
css styling to the pdf…

By: Josh Chaney

Josh Chaney — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:11:03 +0000

Would love to see this gemified! I have tried Prawn and it’s awful. I would much rather write HTML and convert it. Have you guys tested it with large ( 50+ ) pages? I found that most applications that can convert a website to PDF ( like Paparazzi! ) tend to bomb and spit out blank pages. I know the scenario is unlikely for a typical website, but I ran into this exact problem trying to generate PDFs from large HTML reports.

By: rubes_mn

rubes_mn — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:30:18 +0000

I could absolutely use this. Looking at all the
options out there to convert from html: princeXML,
HTMLDOC, wkhtmltopdf, none are that desireable
primarily due to cost and/or deployment issues. I
prefer a web service and especially since what I’m
converting has no PII or security concerns.