Prawn is a pure Ruby PDF generation library that provides a lot of great
functionality while trying to remain simple and reasonably performant.
Here are some of the important features we provide:
- Vector drawing support, including lines, polygons, curves, ellipses, etc.
- Extensive text rendering support, including flowing text and limited inline
formatting options.
- Support for both PDF builtin fonts as well as embedded TrueType fonts
- A variety of low level tools for basic layout needs, including a simple
grid system
- PNG and JPG image embedding, with flexible scaling options
- Reporting tools for rendering complex data tables, with pagination support
- Security features including encryption and password protection
- Tools for rendering repeatable content (i.e headers, footers, and page
numbers)
- Comprehensive internationalization features, including full support for UTF-8
based fonts, right-to-left text rendering, fallback font support,
and extension points for customizable text wrapping.
- Support for PDF outlines for document navigation
- Low level PDF features, allowing users to create custom extensions
by dropping down all the way to the PDF object tree layer.
(Mostly useful to those with knowledge of the PDF specification)
- Lots of other stuff!
