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Ruby Ghostscript

The easy way to build documents

Ruby Ghostscript (RGhost) is a library for document developers wanting a quick and easy way to generate pdf files. It’s optimized to work with larger documents.

Notable features include: auto pagination, dynamic cursor, custom font tags, TTF and Type1 font support, virtual page(splitting into columns), image insertion, , text wrap, 32 barcodes, geometric shapes and vector drawing, EPS template support, PDF links, PDF password, Ruby on Rails data grid and multiple output formats.

And now, it’s hello world

Create a file with content

 doc=RGhost::Document.new
 doc.show 'Hello World' , :color => :blue
 doc.render :pdf, :filename => "hello.pdf"

RGhost Manual
RGhost RDOC

RGhost English Group

RGhost Grupo em Português

Both above are outdated, please see this wiki, it has been updating constantly …

Adapters

RGhost Barcode
RGhost Rails

Wiki Pages

• About RGhost
  

Configuring

• Installation Linux , MacOSX , Windows
  
• Environment Test
  
• Optional Configuration
• Using external fonts with Fontmap

RGhost way

• Basic usage
• Units
• Page Control
• Paper and Page Layout
• Fonts
• Defining and Using Tags
• Document and Callbacks
• Color RGB CMYK and Grayscale
• Object Orientation and Position
• PDF
  • PDF Security
  • PDF Hyperlink
  • PDF Document Info
  • PDF Quality
  • Converting PDF into other formats
• Zoom and Scale
• Graphic shapes
  • Changing defaults colors
  • Border
  • Lines
  • Rounded Corners, Frame, Rectangle and Square
  • Circle
  • Polygon
• Printing
• Printing text
• Printing text from file
• Virtual pages
• Working with templates and images
• Rails
  • Render for Rails and Sockets
  • Working with data and ActiveRecord

• Advanced
  • Postscript API’s Internal Stack

• Constants
  • RGhost::Constants::Papers::STANDARD
  • Supported Devices, Drivers and Formats

Change Log

• Version 0.8.7 – Every callbacks need a block variable

Get also

Ghostscript for Windows
RGhost Barcode