Prawn
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Prawn is a Ruby gem that allows developers to easily generate and render PDF documents. It aims to provide the necessary features for PDF generation, like UTF-8 support and image embedding, without unnecessary complexity. The document discusses Prawn's history, goals, code examples, and future plans, including becoming more stable with a 1.0 release scheduled for June 2009. Developers can install Prawn using the gem install command.
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- 1. Prawn Create PDFs with Ruby
- 2. Tom Klaasen • Co-founder of (http://10to1.be) • @tomklaasen • http://tomklaasen.net
- 3. Prawn • Prawn takes the pain out of generating beautiful printable documents, while still remaining fast, tiny and nimble.
- 4. 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
- 5. Goals • The features you need, without all the complexity • Built in support for UTF-8 • Easy image embedding • Flexible table drawing • Simplified content positioning
- 9. Render a book (2)
- 10. Render a book (3) • PDF: 84 pages • “Took 6.582318 to generate.”
- 11. Tables
- 12. Tables (2)
- 13. Bounding boxes
- 15. The Future • Now: alpha • Project is gaining traction quickly • First stable production release: June 2009
- 16. How to get it • gem install prawn
- 17. References • http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/ • http://advent2008.hackruby.com/past/ 2008/12/17/ awn_and_the_future_of_ruby_pdf_generat ion
- 18. Thank You • tom@10to1.be • @tomklaasen • http://tomklaasen.net