DOCX to PDF Converter with Placeholder Replacement

This Ruby utility replaces placeholders in a .docx file with provided values and converts the result to a PDF using LibreOffice.

• Replace placeholders like {{name}}, {{date}}, etc. in a Word document.
• Generate a filled PDF version of the document.
• Temporary files are managed in the system temp directory.
• Safe file generation using SecureRandom.

• Ruby (>= 2.5)
• LibreOffice installed and available as soffice in the system path
• Gems:
  • docx
  • securerandom

Add the following line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'docx'
gem 'word_to_pdf'

And then execute:

bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

gem install docx

first create a template sample word file(.docx)

This is test file
Name: {{name}}
date of birth: {{date}}

or \

You can download a sample .docx template to test this gem:

👉 Click here to get the sample file

require 'word_to_pdf'

WordToPdf.convert(
  '/path/to/template.docx',
  '/path/to/output.pdf',
  {
    first_name: 'Test',
    last_name: 'Example'
  }
)

You will have the downloaded file on the /path/to/output.pdf location