Pure Ruby PDF converter based on prawn

[gettalong]

I'm currently investigating how much effort it would take to create a pure Ruby PDF converter based on the prawn PDF library.

Any input, ideas, etc. are appreciated, especially on the following items:

• Expectations for such a converter
• How to handle customization of individual element output?
• Other libraries than prawn that are better suited for this task
• Is there need for such a converter?

[ghost]

This is a great idea, but I would say it is beyond the scope of this project. You have a good gem here, and it will stay good by keeping it simple.
Feature creep

Perhaps a new gem?

[gettalong]

I don't think of this as feature creep since the PDF converter could always be easily removed without limiting the functionality of the rest.

[ghost]

Do you have idea how much it would increase size of the repo? If it is < 100 KB then I guess it wouldnt matter.

[gettalong]

One Ruby file with a size similar to the latex converter, so about 20K.

[gettalong]

Nobody except @SNPN seems to be interested :)

However, since I have a personal need for this I have implemented it, see commit 6be94f5 for a first version.

[cirosantilli]

I am very interested in this.

Made a related SE question at: http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/3588/convert-markdown-to-pdf-without-latex

[gettalong]

On 2022-02-15 22:16 +0000 Alejandro Rivero wrote: The documentation pages imply that a direct pdf output is already envisioned, is it?

Yes, there is already kramdown-converter-pdf, see https://github.com/kramdown/converter-pdf. It is currently unmaintained but functional.