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The conclusion is telling: They switched from Prawn to wkhtmltopdf, have all these issues with it, but have found nothing better. Wkhtmltopdf is far and away t
by jessewmc 8y ago
The conclusion is telling: They switched from Prawn to wkhtmltopdf, have all these issues with it, but have found nothing better.
Wkhtmltopdf is far and away the best solution (at least in Ruby land) even if it is often painful to work with.
- pavel_lishin 8y agoTheir conclusion is TLDR'd at the top, and that they have found something better. > TL;DR: replace it with weasyprint.
- jessewmc 8y agoThe last line of the article is "We'll be keeping an eye on weasyprint." I'm pretty sure that means they don't think it's ready yet, and aren't using it yet. It looks promising but they don't directly test it against any of their complaints! I, like many people in this thread, have used wkhtmltopdf for years and it works pretty well.
- astrodust 8y agoThe biggest problem is it's HTML based and WebKit based. Things that are trivial to do in a native PDF drawing library are a total pain because of the CSS factor.