[LRUG] Best way to generate a PDF

[Andy Olliver]

I've just done some work using wicked_pdf gem - this worked well for us.
Be very careful regarding capacity planning when adding something like this
into a Rails web-app - long running requests are bad news. For anything
other than v.low request rate, consider adding a worker Q, with client
polling for success / fail / timeout etc.


On 12 February 2013 15:18, Richard Livsey <richard at livsey.org> wrote:

> I've had good results with using Flying Saucer -
> https://code.google.com/p/flying-saucer
>
> It's Java, but easy to use with JRuby or just make a standalone executable
> and call out to that to generate PDFs from HTML & CSS.
> I found it much better than wkhtmltopdf for the kind of PDFs I was
> generating, but probably worth giving PDFKit a try first to see if that
> suits your needs.
>
> Cheers.
>
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> On Tuesday, 12 February 2013 at 15:12, Mooktakim Ahmed wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > Recently i have used https://github.com/pdfkit/PDFKit. One good thing
> about it is that you can set it up as a middleware which translates HTML
> into PDF just by going to the .pdf extension.
> > It might not be good fit for you. But for me, it was a nice way to
> quickly get PDF generation working, without adding too much messy code.
> Especially good if you need to convert HTML to PDF.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mooktakim Ahmed
> >
> > On 12 February 2013 15:06, Luke Saunders <luke at sketchconsulting.com(mailto:
> luke at sketchconsulting.com)> wrote:
> > > Hi LRUG
> > >
> > > Can anyone with recent experience in this recommend the best tool to
> use in order to generate a PDF from a Ruby (Rails) app?
> > >
> > > Said PDF will be an A4 document, with a title page, followed by 5-10
> content pages each with a standard header / footer including page numbers.
> Content pages consist of headings and paragraphs, along with some embedded
> images.
> > >
> > > I used prawn (https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn) once to generate a
> business card sized PDF and that was fine, but I'm wondering if perhaps a
> markup, maybe like LaTeX would be wise to generate this kind of doc.
> > >
> > > Keen to make the right choice and I think making the wrong choice
> could eat a lot of time here.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Luke.
> >
>
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