The Ruby On Rails Wiki lists a couple of libraries that facilitate PDF generation in Rails. I need to print out address labels (in letter format, thus 12-15 addresses per page) and cannot decide which one to use. Any recommendations?

The best I've seen so far is Prawn: <ul> <li>Prawn http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/ </li> <li>http://advent2008.hackruby.com/past/2008/12/17/awn_and_the_future_of_ruby_pdf_generation/</li> <li>http://railstips.org/2008/10/14/how-to-generate-pdfs-in-rails-with-prawn</li> <li>Prawn Rails plugin: http://www.cracklabs.com/prawnto </li> </ul>

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The Ruby On Rails Wiki lists a couple of libraries that facilitate PDF generation in Rails. I need to print out address labels (in letter format, thus 12-15 addresses per page) and cannot decide which one to use. Any recommendations?

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asked Jan 11 '09 16:01

Sebastian

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The best I've seen so far is Prawn:

Prawn http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/
http://advent2008.hackruby.com/past/2008/12/17/awn_and_the_future_of_ruby_pdf_generation/
http://railstips.org/2008/10/14/how-to-generate-pdfs-in-rails-with-prawn
Prawn Rails plugin: http://www.cracklabs.com/prawnto

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answered Sep 23 '22 14:09

Marston A.

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