RBPDF Template Plugin

A template plugin allowing the inclusion of ERB-enabled RBPDF template files.

RBPDF Version (The New or UTF8 Version)

• Use UTF-8 encoding.
• RTL (Right-To-Left) languages support.
• HTML tag support.
• CSS minimum support.
• Image

• 8bit PNG image support without MiniMagick/RMagick library.
• PNG(with alpha channel)/JPEG/GIF/WebP image support. (use MiniMagick or RMagick library)

Installing RBPDF

RBPDF is distributed via RubyGems, and can be installed the usual way that you install gems: by simply typing gem install rbpdf on the command line.

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If you are using image file, it is recommended you install:

gem install mini_magick marcel

or

gem install rmagick

RBPDF Example of simple use in .html.erb:

<%
  @pdf = RBPDF.new()
  @pdf.set_margins(15, 27, 15)
  @pdf.set_font('FreeSans','', 8)
  @pdf.add_page()
  @pdf.write(5, "text\n", '')
%><%==@pdf.output()%>

RBPDF Japanese Example of simple use in .html.erb:

<%
  @pdf = RBPDF.new()
  @pdf.set_margins(15, 27, 15)
  @pdf.set_font('kozminproregular','', 8)
  @pdf.add_page()
  @pdf.write(5, "UTF-8 Japanese text.\n", '')
%><%==@pdf.output()%>

PDF example output

$ OUTPUT=true bundle exec rake test TEST=test/rbpdf_examples_test.rb
$ ls -1 *.pdf
example001.pdf
example002.pdf
example003.pdf
:

See the following files for sample of useage:

test_unicode.rbpdf utf8test.txt logo_example.png

ENJOY!

License

The project RBPDF doesn't use same license for all code. There are code with:

• LGPLv2.1+ (GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or any later version)

• MIT (MIT-LICENSE)

Please, check source code for more details. A license is usually at the start of each source file.

The MIT-LICENSE file (MIT) is the default license for code without an explicitly defined license.