[lorennorman]

Right now it is Prawn[0]. It slowly evolved from a script a year ago, where it was fine. We are considering switching to an HTML->PDF workflow, though, since I have to render all of this stuff in the web for quicker previews anyway!

Thanks for the clean design mention, we owe it mostly to Zurb Foundation[1]. Using those modal popovers to control the user's attention has really helped me narrow the UI variables.

0: http://prawnpdf.org 1: http://foundation.zurb.com

[patio11]

Stick with Prawn, as it is sanity saving for this task. For web based previews, use GraphicsMagick and Postscript to turn the PDF into a gif or image. One command line, takes half a second. Saves you from doing CSS hell on layout, where the preview pixel wise matching the print data really matters for your app.

[lorennorman]

Thanks for the tip, Patrick! I had heard the html->pdf tools were pretty good, but you're absolutely right about the pixel precision needs. I got my Prawn setup into a reasonable state pretty early, and it's be Mostly Fine, Just Fine.