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  <info>What is the best way to integrate PDFs into your Rails applications? This presentation will begin with a comparison of popular PDF generation libraries, including Prawn and Prawnto. The talk will cover basic capabilities and syntax, followed by sample code and a live demo. Finally, the presenter will share his real world experience writing tests and helpers to support PDF generation.</info>
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  <slides-url>http://www.slideshare.net/johnny_zebra/pdf-generation-in-rails-with-prawn-and-prawnto-john-mccaffrey</slides-url>
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  <talk-url>http://prawn.heroku.com</talk-url>
  <title>Super-easy PDF Generation with Prawn and Prawnto</title>
  <updated-at type="datetime">2009-09-29T21:02:21+00:00</updated-at>
  <when type="datetime">2009-09-12T10:00:00+00:00</when>
  <average-rating type="decimal">4.22</average-rating>
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    <created-at type="datetime">2009-09-08T17:08:29+00:00</created-at>
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    <description>An annual gathering for all who are passionate about Ruby on Rails.</description>
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    <location>Westin Chicago River North, Chicago, Illinois</location>
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    <start-date type="datetime">2009-09-12T00:00:00+00:00</start-date>
    <title>Windy City Rails 2009</title>
    <updated-at type="datetime">2009-09-08T17:08:29+00:00</updated-at>
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      <biography>Thanks for all the votes from the windycityrails conference.

You can vote for my PDF talk, and provide and feedback that you think would help me get better.
Also if you want to see the code examples running live, they are at [prawn.heroku.com][1] including video of the presentation and follow up questions


  [1]: http://prawn.heroku.com &quot;prawn.heroku.com&quot;</biography>
      <company>Pathfinder Development</company>
      <company-website>http://www.pathf.com/blogs/author/john-mccaffrey</company-website>
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      <linkedin-url>http://www.linkedin.com/in/hirejohnmccaffrey</linkedin-url>
      <location>Chicago, Il</location>
      <name>John McCaffrey</name>
      <personal-website>http://bit.ly/ad4Fw</personal-website>
      <title>Senior Consultant</title>
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      <average-rating type="decimal">4.22</average-rating>
      <avatar-url>/avatars/3151/thumb/marina_city.jpg</avatar-url>
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