From: Thomas Volkmar Worm <tvw@...4r.de>
Date: 2008-07-26T02:59:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Graphic Designers : Prawn needs a logo!

Hello Gregory,

Gregory Brown wrote:

> I'll be releasing an alpha version of Prawn[0], the fast, nimble PDF
> library for Ruby within the next few days.

Great!! I was looking for a PDF library a couple of weeks ago, but could 
not find something suitable. Do you have a homepage for Prawn[0], where I 
could find some information about the lib? The links you put at the end 
of your post seemed not so informative to me or I am just not finding the 
right places.

Back to the problem I had: All libraries I found could produce PDFs, but 
not read them. What I wanted to do was just to personalize an existing 
PDF before delivery, which could not be done by the libs, I found. 
Fortunately there was CPAN, which provides a couple of solutions for any 
problem and I wrote a little perl script, which I called from ruby in my 
rails app.

Another part of the job was prepareing the PDFs, which I did in perl, 
since I still had the scripts from the year before: Merging pages from 
PDFs I got and providing them with bookmarks.

So what I am interested about is, whether I could solve such problems 
(manipulating/reusing existing PDFs) in ruby in the near future ;-)


Happy coding

Thomas