Prawn: Creating PDF in Ruby

Prawn Create PDFs with Ruby

Tom Klaasen • Co-founder of (http://10to1.be) • @tomklaasen • http://tomklaasen.net

Prawn • Prawn takes the pain out of generating beautiful printable documents, while still remaining fast, tiny and nimble.

History • Gregory Brown: “What if I could just do open source for a while, non- commercially?” • http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/03/ id_love_to_quit_my_job_sort_of.html

Goals • The features you need, without all the complexity • Built in support for UTF-8 • Easy image embedding • Flexible table drawing • Simpliﬁed content positioning

Code Examples

“Hello, World”

Render a book

Render a book (2)

Render a book (3) • PDF: 84 pages • “Took 6.582318 to generate.”

Tables

Tables (2)

Bounding boxes

Bounding boxes (2)

The Future • Now: alpha • Project is gaining traction quickly • First stable production release: June 2009

How to get it • gem install prawn

References • http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/ • http://advent2008.hackruby.com/past/ 2008/12/17/ awn_and_the_future_of_ruby_pdf_generat ion

Thank You • tom@10to1.be • @tomklaasen • http://tomklaasen.net

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