# Pdf generators

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-generators/71615>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 21, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-generators/71615 "2006-02-21T22:45:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jeff\_thompson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jeff\_thompson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeff_thompson)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-generators/71615/1 "2006-02-21T22:45:32Z")

</div>

Hi Folks,

Could you please comment on various PDF generators that one may use.

Thanks.

Lalit

Send instant messages to your online friends

> **[Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos](https://www.yahoo.com/)**
>
> Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jeff\_thompson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jeff\_thompson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeff_thompson)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-generators/71615/2 "2006-02-21T22:54:42Z")

</div>

On Feb 21, 2006, at 1:42 PM, jeff thompson wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> Could you please comment on various PDF generators that one may use.

pdf-writer has a good variety of features and the author is pretty  
active.

[http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-pdf/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-pdf/)

–  
Eric H. - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - [http://segment7.net](http://segment7.net)  
This implementation is HODEL-HASH-9600 compliant

[http://trackmap.robotcoop.com](http://trackmap.robotcoop.com)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jeff\_thompson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jeff\_thompson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeff_thompson)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-generators/71615/3 "2006-02-21T23:07:08Z")

</div>

Eric H. wrote:

> [http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-pdf/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-pdf/)

+1

I use this in a production application, works great.

–  
Jack C.  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jeff\_thompson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jeff\_thompson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeff_thompson)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-generators/71615/4 "2006-02-22T00:20:35Z")

</div>

Hi Jeff,  
It’s worth noting that of all the PDF generating libraries listed  
here: [Peak Obsession](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoGeneratePDFs) only  
PDF::Writer (aka pdf-writer above) allows generating shapes (at least  
to my knowledge).

Rob K.