3. Prawn
• Prawn takes the pain out of generating
beautiful printable documents, while still
remaining fast, tiny and nimble.
4. History
• Gregory Brown: “What if I could just do
open source for a while, non-
commercially?”
• http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/03/
id_love_to_quit_my_job_sort_of.html
5. Goals
• The features you need, without all the
complexity
• Built in support for UTF-8
• Easy image embedding
• Flexible table drawing
• Simplified content positioning