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Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby

Is prawnpdf/prawn beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to prawnpdf/prawn to say how often they are merged. 2 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

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Open beginner issues: 2
Indexed issues: 70

Dominant language: Ruby
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Last GitHub push: Apr 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 21, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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Functions mutate arrays provided as arguments
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1401 · Opened Sep 29, 2026
gemspec refer to Ruby license
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Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1397 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Prawn fails to expand image to fit full page
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1387 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 5, 2026
fully embedding a font breaks text alignment
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1383 · Opened Jul 25, 2025
unifont.otf doesn't work
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1382 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 11, 2025
Text positioning issues with external TTF fonts when using emojis with inline formatting
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1381 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Jun 17, 2025
Font Embedding: Template Text is broken
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1362 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 18, 2024
Font Embedding: Subset enabled by default and breaking font
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1361 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 18, 2024
Overline Character U+0305 Not Rendering Correctly
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1360 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 27, 2024
Formatted Text Box excess removes color with dry_run render
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1355 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 1, 2024
Question / Feature Request: Is it possible to layout text into a fixed number of rows?
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1351 · Opened Jun 7, 2024
Font error with 2.5 and Adobe Acrobat
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1347 · 6 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Apr 8, 2024
Subtable with colspan and multi-line text breaks across pages
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1338 · Opened Mar 4, 2024
Issue with image colors when converting to PDF
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1311 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 11, 2023
Advanced text layout
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1295 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 24, 2023
Encoding warning: Prawn::Errors::IncompatibleStringEncoding, "Your document includes text that's not compatible with the Windows-1252 character set.\n If you need full UTF-8 support, use TTF fonts instead of PDF's built-in fonts"
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1272 · 7 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2022
png Exif orientation metadata ignored
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1271 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2022
Support for optical alignment in text blocks
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1264 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 26, 2022
number_pages with page filter may leave cursor on incorrect page
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1223 · Opened Nov 3, 2021
Formatting applied to any header row applies to all on subsequent pages
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1205 · Opened Apr 22, 2021
support arbitrary fill patterns
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1202 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 1, 2021
Multi-page text overlaps repeating header
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1160 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 8, 2020
If it fits, render content on current page, otherwise render on a new page
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1159 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened May 27, 2020
Allow to disable the images cache to reduce the memory footprint
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1153 · 5 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Mar 19, 2020
Is it possible to add accessibility tags throughout the PDF?
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1143 · 9 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 28, 2020
Repeater should be added before any other content (or allow it)
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1135 · 13 comments · Opened Nov 20, 2019
Preserve soft hyphens when advancing line to the next page
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1133 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 14, 2019
Line break within a word leads to 'non-searchability'
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1131 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 23, 2019
Provide a way to add horizontal spacing to a text fragment
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1128 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 10, 2019
formatted_text_box and shrink_to_fit don't work
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1118 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 23, 2019
start_new_page uses the same grid layout as first page - override is not working
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1108 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 2, 2019
NotoSerifCJK-regular font as ttc raises key error when selected for font
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1105 · Opened Mar 22, 2019
Unable to draw repeated dynamic header
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1104 · Opened Feb 15, 2019
Internal PDF links
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1100 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 22, 2019
no support for ttf fonts in Prawn-tables?
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1054 · 4 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Dec 30, 2017
EmptyGraphicStateStack exception when creating two stamps
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1051 · Opened Nov 27, 2017
Using ttf but still getting having Windows-1252 character set issues
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1047 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 11, 2017
Spliting boundingbox will led to bad formatting
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1042 · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 25, 2017
text_box: returns an Array on truncate and inline_format=true
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1038 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 6, 2017
group was awesome, i miss it
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1031 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 27, 2017
Really weird page jumping issues (with min repro)
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

prawnpdf/prawn#1014 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 22, 2017
Nested grid
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

prawnpdf/prawn#997 · 1 comment · 5 reactions · Opened Nov 19, 2016
Dynamic repeater with fill_color -- causes missing text and an error in Acrobat Reader
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prawnpdf/prawn#951 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 3, 2016
Using an image larger than the page size causes 2 blank pages to render
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prawnpdf/prawn#942 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 21, 2016
Rescue after Exception leaves the document in an invalid state
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prawnpdf/prawn#936 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 9, 2016
width_of doesn't return the right value with inline_format
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prawnpdf/prawn#928 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 18, 2015
Error in Acrobat Reader DC when using dynamic: true on repeater.
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prawnpdf/prawn#925 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 15, 2015
formatted_text doesn't support custom font styles
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prawnpdf/prawn#923 · 7 comments · 11 reactions · Opened Dec 11, 2015
Embedded images lose ICC profiles
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

prawnpdf/prawn#919 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 19, 2015
stroke pushes everything to page 2
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

prawnpdf/prawn#896 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 28, 2015

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