Creating Custom PDFs Using Prawn by Stephanie Wiggins
Talk given by Stephanie Wiggins at the online WNB.rb Meetup on February 22nd 2022.
https://www.wnb-rb.dev/
While PDFs aren’t typically a core feature on a website, what if you wanted to extend a feature’s functionality to streamline a user’s experience by generating custom PDFs using Ruby? In this talk, we consider features where this may be applicable, weigh options for generating the PDF, and dive into the Prawn gem to create a document.
Stephanie Wiggins is a developer with a background in design. She appreciates writing code in order to create intuitive user experiences as well as linking arms with others to learn and grow together.
(Oldie but goodie) Thoughtbot article that compares PDFKit to Prawn (https://thoughtbot.com/upcase/videos/...)
More about the command line tools Webkit HTML to PDF that PDFKit wraps (https://wkhtmltopdf.org/)
GitHub Links of Gems: PDFKit (https://github.com/pdfkit/pdfkit) and Prawn (https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn)
Amazing, thorough Prawn documentation (https://prawnpdf.org/manual.pdf) in a PDF
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