Rails PDF generating alternative to Prawn
pdf, prawn, ruby-on-rails
Solution
iText is probably the best answer that developers of any language have for generating PDFs. It isn't a perfect answer for you because it is a Java library. However, you may find it worth your time to stub out a java program that takes the data and works with iText to output a PDF.
You can also interface with iText through Groovy.
http://itextpdf.com/
Problem
I've been using Prawn to generate simple invoice PDFs. I now have the need to create a more complicated PDF document and Prawn is coming up short. I need to copy an existing layout precisely so converting from HTML (a la Princely) is not an option. Can anyone recommend a good alternative, or any alternative for that matter?