PDFTron PDFNet SDK v.5.7. - A Ruby Extension module for all types of
PDF processing including rendering, conversion, editing, and creation.
WHAT IT IS:
PDFNet SDK is an amazingly comprehensive, high-quality PDF developer
toolkit for working with PDF files at all levels. Using the PDFNet PDF
library, developers can create powerful PDF solutions and applications
that can generate, manipulate, view, render and print PDF documents on
Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Some of the feature highlights include:
PDF Rendering and rasterization
PDF Editing
PDF Creation from Xaml, HTML, XPS, EMF, .NET/GDI+, etc.
PDFNet SDK is an amazingly comprehensive, high-quality PDF developer
PDF Printing
orhttp://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/support.html
but I think I’d rather pay the owners of Prawn for a customized
solution - if it doesn’t already do what I will need for FREE.
If I remember right the other paid solution, Prince is about $5k. Not
sure
how this compares to it. Anyhow, I have found wkhtmltopdf to be a pretty
good converter, and assuming it continues to grow and be maintaned is a
nice
project if you want to covert html to pdf. Prawn I bet is good but it
felt
like learning a whole new dsl — and in my case since I already had
some
complex html it was not for me.
Started to look interesting until I saw the BUY button - $900US per
licence per platform?
Dev Env = Mac OS X
Server = Linux
Total to test then deploy = $1800US? (If I’m reading it right)
I’m going to be needing a PDF solution for Ruby in the coming months,
but I think I’d rather pay the owners of Prawn for a customized
solution - if it doesn’t already do what I will need for FREE.
Dev Env = Mac OS X
good converter, and assuming it continues to grow and be maintaned is a nice
like the latter.
Yeah. My guess is the license is per server. I used a program simialer
when
doing .NET work which was great converting html to pdf … really
painless… and it was about $500 and seemed a similar arrangement. Too
bad
it was only for windows.
Dev Env = Mac OS X
to be a pretty good converter, and assuming it continues to grow and
be maintaned is a nice project if you want to covert html to pdf.
Prawn I bet is good but it felt like learning a whole new dsl —
and in my case since I already had some complex html it was not for
me.
Prince is expensive, but not that expensive! http://princexml.com/purchase/
I have used it on one very large .edu project, and it does an
amazing job. The thing I’m still curious about with PDFNet is whether
it’s a desktop app or a server-side service. They’re marketing it as
if it was the former (box photos etc.) but there’s an API like the
latter.
Walter
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