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Dopplr presents the Personal Annual Report 2008: freshly generated for you, and Barack Obama... So classy it hurts. I’d love to know what library they used to generate the PDF.

Posted 16th January 2009 at 12:17 pm

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5 comments

  1. We used Prawn, a ruby library.

    Tom Insam and I will be doing writeups on our personal blogs eventually about the PDF generation process, and also how we used EC2 servers (built by Puppet) to run the large batch-generation job.

    Matt Biddulph - 16th January 2009 14:27 - #

  2. Prawn. http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/ - I intend to do a vaguely proper write-up on it when I'm _not_ nursemaiding a terrifying render pipeline for all the travellers on Dopplr...

    Tom Insam - 16th January 2009 14:38 - #

  3. First post!

    Matt Biddulph - 16th January 2009 14:39 - #

  4. Curse you and your 'not doing any real work' attitude.

    Tom Insam - 16th January 2009 14:39 - #

  5. When I was looking at generating PDFs with Python, I ran across the ReportLab Toolkit - there's example code in the FAQ. It's also possible to make it play well with Google App Engine, which was a concern for me, as it's where I wanted to use it. I don't know how language agnostic you are, and I can't recommend it from personal use (yet), but I thought it might be worth mentioning.

    Paul Mison - 16th January 2009 14:47 - #

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