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PDFKit

#220 PDFKit

Jun 28, 2010 | 8 minutes | Views, Plugins
Generating PDFs in plain Ruby can be a lot of work. Instead, consider generating PDFs from HTML using PDFKit.
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PDFs with Prawn (revised)
Episode #153 – Nov 03, 2011 – 82 comments

PDFs with Prawn (revised)

Prawn is an excellent Ruby library for generating PDF documents. Here you will learn how to add it to a Rails application through a separate PDF renderer class. (11 minutes)
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