From: Denis Haskin <denis@...>
Date: 2009-11-24T09:47:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Printing from Ruby

Sounds like a job for prawn: http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/

We used it for something very similar, and it was superb.

dwh


Seebs wrote:
> Long story short:  I wanted to make pretty-printed stuff.  I have, after
> several hours, gotten something that can produce acceptable output by
> rendering as HTML, which I then run through Firefox -- with five mostly
> undocumented about:config changes and an elaborate printing procedure.
>
> That sucks.
>
> I am looking for the ability to do things that are frankly not much beyond
> trivial HTML type layout -- a little CSS, but nothing past font sizes and
> colors and the like.  What are good choices for PDF or postscript rendering
> from Ruby, if any?  It might be nice to have visibility into rendering at
> the level of "if I render this block of text, how tall does it come out?"
>
> I don't need any graphics past maybe the ability to draw solid-colored boxes
> behind text.
>
> -s
>