pdf/stamper - PDF Templates

http://github.com/jaywhy/pdf-stamper/ by Jason Yates

Description

Fill out PDF forms (templates) using iText's PdfStamper.

Features include:

• Text fields
• Checkboxes
• Circles, ellipses, rectangles
• PDF-417 Barcodes

You have to use JRuby or RJB. You need Adobe LiveCycle Designer or Acrobat Professional to create the templates.

Example

pdf = PDF::Stamper.new("my_template.pdf")

pdf.text :first_name, "Jason"
pdf.text :last_name, "Yates"

pdf.image :photo, "photo.jpg"
pdf.checkbox :hungry
pdf.ellipse(140, 380, 50, 13)
pdf.rectangle(140, 380, 50, 13)
pdf.circle(140, 380)

# PDF-417 barcodes
pdf.barcode("PDF417", "2d_barcode", "Barcode data...", AspectRatio: 0.5)

pdf.save_as "my_output.pdf"

Here is how you use it in Rails.

# In your controller.
def send 
  pdf = PDF::Stamper.new("sample.pdf") 
  pdf.text :first_name, "Jason"
  pdf.text :last_name, "Yates" 
  send_data(pdf.to_s, :filename => "output.pdf", :type => "application/pdf",:disposition => "inline")
end   

Installation

gem install pdf-stamper

Code

git clone http://github.com/jaywhy/pdf-stamper/

Contributors

Paul Schreiber Joe Steele Ronny Hanssen Marshall Anschutz

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2007-2013 Jason Yates

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.