PDF Generation tools

[john_McCaffrey]

I'm wondering what tools people are using for PDF generation?

I have seen a few references to these libraries, and I'm wondering
which ones people are using the most:
PDF::Writer, iText, JasperReports, Prawn, pdftk, rpdf

Do you create pretty basic PDFs, or does it get pretty complex?

[Matt Polito]

I'm using Prawn, but only because of the railscast about it. I could
be swayed to any other library that will give me better results. With
that being said... I'm entirely happy with it because I am not getting
a result close to what the actual page shows me. This could also be
due to not having time to properly acquaint myself with Prawn/
Prawnto. Any suggestions on getting a more accurate representation of
what I have on a styled webpage?

[John Yerhot]

A couple years ago I used PDF::Writer, and I could do some pretty
complex stuff with it, but I just remember it being a huge pain in the
ass. Of course that could have been because I needed to do some
complex stuff with it :)

If I needed to generate PDFs nowadays, I'd try Prawn.

On Sep 9, 2:09 pm, john_McCaffrey <john.mccaff...@gmail.com> wrote:

[j_McCaffrey]

Matt, this seems like an interesting case. If you had links to the
html and pdf, I could take a look.

If nothing else, bring them with you to WindyCityRails or the next
ChicagoRuby meeting, and I can take a look.

I'm a big fan of Prawn, and so far I've found that any of the issues I
run into are pretty quickly resolved by the team, or easy enough for
me to figure out.

[Matt Polito]

Excellent. Thanks for the advice, I'm eager to see your presentation
tomorrow as it really pertains to something I will be doing in the
very near future.

[j_McCaffrey]

I posted my slides, static pdf examples and live coding application to
http://prawn.heroku.com