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Asked: 2026-05-11T15:16:56+00:00

Main-Question What’s your fast and reliable (as in stable) solution to create on-demand, newspaper-like

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Main-Question

What’s your fast and reliable (as in ‘stable’) solution to create on-demand, newspaper-like (as in ‘using advanced layout or typesetting’) PDFs out of an application on a Linux server?

Therefore: No, HTML2PDF is not the solution I’m looking for. 😉

Bonus-Question

And if it’s not Ruby-based: Is there a way to steer your solution out of a Rails application? Preferably over a webservice or a something-2-Ruby-bridge-kind-of-thing?

Thanks a lot for your suggestions!

Update

There’s a similar question and the rtex gem suggested there looks like what I’m looking for. I’ll keep this question unanswered to look if there are other suggestions.

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  1. Typesetting well is hard.

    If you can’t find a ruby typesetting library, you may want to look at running a background pdflatex. LaTeX source is pretty easy to generate programmatically.

    How useful this idea is will depend a bit on how complicated your documents are, and how much you care about the quality of output. If you have simple text only, and only want something a bit better than html, you probably have more options.

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