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• Job Adventures - PDF generation | Jun 2024

  My first contact with building PDFs was with rails using https://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf. The task always seems easy, you just build HTML and render that to pdf. And in fact, the part of rendering the info to the pdf is easy. The nightmare comes when implementing what is on the mockups. How will CSS behave in printing mode? What if we have a component that can’t split on a page break, it should jump in its... - Source: dev.to / 4 days ago

• Working with PDFs in Ruby

  We’ll start with the WickedPDF gem, which is powered by the wkhtmltopdf command-line library. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• Creating PDFs in a Ruby on Rails application

  You have a few options when trying to create a PDF in a Rails environment. Prawn and Wicked PDF have been around for quite a while. I have been using both gems and they work fine. However, they have a few limitations that can make it difficult to handle more complex PDFs. I recently discovered Grover, which can remediate some of this inflexibility in creating PDFs. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Converting HTML to PDF using Rails

  A couple of popular gems to convert HTML to PDF in Rails are PDFKit and WickedPDF. They both use a command line utility called wkhtmltopdf under the hood; which uses WebKit to render a PDF from HTML. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago