Wicked PDF

Wicked PDF: Open Source PDF Generator for Ruby on Rails

Wicked PDF is an open source Ruby library that allows generating PDF files from HTML templates, utilizing the wkhtmltopdf utility to convert HTML to PDF, making PDF creation easy for Ruby on Rails applications.

What is Wicked PDF?

Wicked PDF is an open-source Ruby gem that provides a simple API for generating PDF files from HTML templates in Ruby on Rails applications. It acts as a wrapper for wkhtmltopdf, an open-source command-line utility that uses WebKit to convert HTML content to PDF.

Some key features of Wicked PDF include:

• Seamless integration with Ruby on Rails views and controllers to render PDFs
• Support for layouts and templates - normal Rails view templates can be used
• Customization of PDF generation with options like page sizes, margins, footer patterns, etc.
• Header and cover page generation
• TOC (Table of Contents) generation
• Support for special styling needs with embedded CSS

To use Wicked PDF, it needs to be included in the Gemfile, then HTML can be rendered to PDF from a controller action or view template. The gem handles calling wkhtmltopdf automatically with the desired options. The ease of generating PDFs makes it useful for many applications like order confirmations, invoices, reports, e-books, and more.

Overall, Wicked PDF provides a simple way to leverage wkhtmltopdf's powerful PDF generation capabilities in Ruby on Rails apps. With good templates, high quality, customizable PDF output can be achieved without needing to dive into low-level PDF libraries and APIs.

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