Prawn Styled Text

A Prawn PDF component which adds basic HTML support.

Hey, I started this project some years ago with the goal to create a good HTML to PDF renderer. During this time I tried to refactor it in different ways but in the end I preferred to rewrite it from scratch with a new project: prawn-html. It takes a different approach: no monkey patching, better HTML handling, documents styles, etc. Consider using it in place of prawn-styled-text

• Add to your Gemfile: gem 'prawn-styled-text' (and execute bundle)
• Use the method styled_text on a Prawn::Document instance

require 'prawn-styled-text'
pdf = Prawn::Document.new
pdf.styled_text '<h1 style="text-align: center">Just a test</h1>'
pdf.render_file 'test.pdf'

For more examples see this folder.

HTML tags:

• a: link
• b: bold
• br: new line
• del: strike-through
• div: block element
• em: italic
• h1 - h6: headings
• hr: horizontal line
• i: italic
• ins: underline
• img: image
• li: list item
• mark: highlight
• p: block element
• s: strike-through
• small: smaller text
• span: inline element
• strong: bold
• u: underline
• ul: list

CSS attributes:

• background: for mark tag, only 6 hex digits format, # is ignored - ex. style="background: #FFCC00"
• color: only 6 hex digits format, # is ignored - ex. style="color: #FFBB11"
• font-family: font must be registered, quotes are optional, ex. style="font: Courier"
• font-size: units are ignored - ex. style="font-size: 20px"
• font-style: values: :bold, :bold_italic, :italic, :normal; string or comma separated strings - ex. style="font-style: bold, italic"
• height: for img tag, ex. <img src="test.jpg" style="width: 50%; height: 200"/>
• href: for a tag, ex. <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a>
• letter-spacing: ex. style="letter-spacing: 1.5"
• line-height: heading, units are ignored - ex. style="line-height: 10"
• margin-left: units are ignored - ex. style="margin-left: 15"
• margin-top: units are ignored - ex. style="margin-top: 20"
• src: for img tag, ex. <img src="test.jpg"/>
• text-align: ex. style="text-align: center"
• width: for img tag, ex. <img src="test.jpg" style="width: 50%; height: 200"/>

Other custom attributes:

• dash: for hr tag, dash types, integer or comma separated integers, ex. <hr style="dash: 4"/>
• image-at: for img tag, origin (0, 0) is left bottom, ex. <img src="image.jpg" style="image-at: 100, 600" />
• image-position: for img tag, ex. <img src="image.jpg" style="image-position: center" />
• image-scale: for img tag, ex. <img src="image.jpg" style="image-scale: 0.3" />
• list-symbol: for ul tag, ex. <ul style="list-symbol: -">
• mode: text mode, values: :clip, :fill, :fill_clip, :fill_stroke, :fill_stroke_clip, :invisible, :stroke, :stroke_clip, ex. <h3 style="mode: stroke">Stroke text</h3>

See Prawn documentation for PDF options details.

• Mattia Roccoberton: author

The gem is available as open-source under the terms of the MIT.