New wkpdf implementation released
I happy to announce wkpdf version 0.3.0 - a new implementation of wkpdf, on which I have been working over the last months.
This version does not provide any major, user-visible features but is mainly a re-implementation in the Ruby programming language. Since Mac OS X 10.5 Apple ships the operating system with a full Ruby installation and also includes the RubyCocoa bridge for interfacing Ruby code with Cocoa and the OS X Frameworks. wkpdf uses this bridge for accessing the WebKit framework for rendering HTML as PDF.
The new wkpdf version provides the same features as the previous Objective-C version of wkpdf, but provides a simpler installation procedure. Also, the source code of the project is now hosted on github.com and I hope that this will encourage other developers to contribute to wkpdf. The old wkpdf website wkpdf.plesslweb.ch and the Subversion repository http://svn.plesslweb.ch/wkpdf will be discontinued.
For the impatient among you, you can install wkpdf with the following command:
sudo gem install plessl-wkpdf --source http://gems.github.com
For more information about wkpdf and how to use it, please refer to the brand new wkpdf website at http://plessl.github.com/wkpdf. Developers can browse wkpdf's latest source code and clone or fork the wkpdf git repository at http://github.com/plessl/wkpdf/tree/master.
I hope you enjoy the new version and I'm looking forward to your feedback.
Written July 25th, 2009