Generates a PDF documents using the Prawn Library. This was before I came across this __EPIC__ demo of Prawn https://gist.github.com/441285. And everything changed from this point onwards and I stopped writing more of this nonsensical code.

form_a2_partial.rb

# 18th Feb 2012

require 'prawn'

Prawn::Document.generate("Form A2.pdf", :page_size => "A4", :page_layout => :portrait)   do |pdf|
  pdf.font "Times-Roman"
  pdf.font_size 10
  pdf.text "Form A2"
  pdf.text "Application cum Declaration"
  pdf.text "(To be completed by the applicant)"
  pdf.text ""
  pdf.text "Application for drawal of foreign exchange"
  
  pdf.pad_bottom(5) { pdf.text ""}
  
  pdf.bounding_box([0, pdf.cursor], :width => 500, :height => 300) do
    y  = pdf.cursor
    pdf.bounding_box([10, y], :width => 10) do 
      pdf.text "I"
    end
    pdf.bounding_box([50, y], :width => 480) do 
      pdf.text "Details of the applicant -"
      pdf.text "a) Name:"
      pdf.text "b) Address:"
      pdf.text "c) Account Number:"
    end
    pdf.pad(5) { pdf.text ""}


    y  = pdf.cursor
    pdf.bounding_box([10, y], :width => 10) do 
      pdf.text "II"
    end
    pdf.bounding_box([50, y], :width => 480) do 
      pdf.text "Details of the foreign exchange required -"
      pdf.text "a) Amount:"
      pdf.text "b) Currency:"
      pdf.text "c) Purpose:"
    end
    pdf.pad(5) { pdf.text ""}


    y  = pdf.cursor
    pdf.bounding_box([10, y], :width => 10, :height => 30) do 
      pdf.text "III"
    end
    pdf.bounding_box([50, y], :width => 480) do 
      pdf.text "I authorise you to debit my Savings Bank/Current/RFC/EEFC Account" +
       " number................. together with your charges and"
      pdf.text "a) Amount:"
      pdf.text "b) Currency:"
      pdf.text "c) Purpose:"
    end
    pdf.pad(5) { pdf.text ""}

  end

  pdf.text "#{pdf.cursor}"
end