# Pdf manipulation with RoR? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 3, 2007, 4:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-manipulation-with-ror/105804 "2007-06-03T04:47:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2007, 4:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-manipulation-with-ror/105804/1 "2007-06-03T04:47:08Z")
New to rails and I’m working on a site for ebooks and was wondering if there are any plugins for rails that will allow me to generate pdfs on the fly like safari books, where after you order a book it prepares a pdf with your user name on each page. Thankd for all the help. ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-manipulation-with-ror/105804/2 "2007-06-05T15:07:12Z")
No, there aren’t, but you can use the pdfstamp.pl from Perl’s Text::PDF to do it. That’s what I use for my ebook on building e- commerce sites in Rails. – Benjamin C. [http://www.bencurtis.com/](http://www.bencurtis.com/) – blog [http://agilewebdevelopment.com/rails-ecommerce](http://agilewebdevelopment.com/rails-ecommerce) – build e-commerce sites with Rails ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-manipulation-with-ror/105804/3 "2007-06-05T15:29:18Z")
There are no plugins for rails, but you can use this library in your app : [http://ruby-pdf.rubyforge.org/](http://ruby-pdf.rubyforge.org/) – Bilek