Introduction
PDF::Writer for Ruby provides the ability to create PDF documents
using only native Ruby libraries. There are several demo programs
available in the demo/ directory. The canonical documentation for
PDF::Writer is the 95-page manual, manual.pdf, generated
using bin/techbook (just techbook for
RubyGem users) and the manual file manual.pwd.
Development for PDF::Writer is hosted on RubyForge in the Ruby PDF Tools project.
Downloading
PDF::Writer 1.1.2 may be downloaded from the release page on the Ruby PDF Tools project.
Installation
PDF::Writer requires both Transaction::Simple 1.3.0 or later and color-tools 1.3.0 or later. Once these packages are installed, PDF::Writer can be installed with:
% ruby setup.rb
Alternatively, you can use the RubyGems version of PDF::Writer available as pdf-writer-1.1.2.gem from the usual sources. The gem knows its dependencies on Transaction::Simple and color-tools and offers to install them.
If you are using the RubyGems version of PDF::Writer, it is recommended that you download the demo programs from the RubyForge site for PDF::Writer.