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 RMagick liblary.
• PNG(with alpha channel)/JPEG/GIF image support. (use RMagick liblary)

Installing RBPDF

RBPDF is distrifuted 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 HTML, it is recommended you install:

gem install htmlentities

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

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()%>

See the following files for sample of useage:

test_unicode.rbpdf utf8test.txt logo_example.png

ENJOY!