# Ruby, CSV and PDF / Porting xtopdf to Ruby with PDF::Writer

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**Created:** [July 25, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-csv-and-pdf-porting-xtopdf-to-ruby-with-pdf-writer/99791 "2006-07-25T16:05:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![vasudevram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/bbce88/32.png) [@vasudevram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vasudevram)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-csv-and-pdf-porting-xtopdf-to-ruby-with-pdf-writer/99791/1 "2006-07-25T16:05:41Z")

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Hey,

Started porting my xtopdf PDF creation/conversion toolkit -  
[Conversion of other file formats to PDF download | SourceForge.net](http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf) - from Python to Ruby.  
Using PDF::Writer for the underlying PDF creation work.  
It looks like a good component.

Details here:

> **[jugad's Journal](https://jugad.livejournal.com/2006/07/24/)**
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> Vasudev Ram's blog on software innovation

And here:

> **[jugad's Journal](https://jugad.livejournal.com/2006/07/25/)**
>
> Vasudev Ram's blog on software innovation

Also did some work on porting DBFReader.py, another part of xtopdf, to  
Ruby.  
Coding in Ruby really seems to flow with ease - a tribute to the  
language design.

Will be creating a RubyForge project for it after some more work is  
done.  
Anyone who wants to know when that happens, feel free to subscribe to  
my blog feed - [jugad's Journal](http://feeds.feedburner.com/Jugad).

That’s my blog where I track and comment on software innovation, both  
commercial and open source, happening worldwide.

- Vasudev

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