Prince
Prince is a batch formatter for converting XML and HTML into PDF by applying Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It prints any XML document, with special support for XHTML, DocBook, and SVG, which can be used in combination with other XML languages.
| Tags | Text Processing Markup XML General printing HTML/XHTML Office/Business |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux Mac OS X Windows Windows |
Recent releases
- 03 Jul 2009 11:45
Changes: This version adds support for kerning, ligatures, OpenType fonts, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, and other Indic scripts. New TeX-style justification can be used for hyphenated text. Performance improvements and bugfixes were made for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
- 18 Feb 2009 10:39
Changes: Support was added for tiling patterns in SVG. Performance was improved when SVG images are referenced multiple times. Bugs were fixed that affected the GUI, column breaks, table layout, line-height, hyphenation, text-decoration, and the parsing of HTML documents encoded with UTF-8.
- 19 Sep 2008 03:49
Changes: This release adds support for CMYK TIFF and JPEG images, fixes bugs affecting hyphenation, tables, and inline elements with horizontal borders, and has improved performance and reduced memory usage for large documents with many elements.
- 19 May 2008 13:20
Changes: Hyphenation, cross-references, pagination, HTML, and HTTP support were improved. New packages are available for Solaris 10 (Sparc) and FreeBSD 6.3. Font bugs affecting Mac OS X (Leopard) were fixed. Many other bugfixes and improvements were made.
- 13 Jan 2008 23:31
Changes: Improvements were made to HTML support, HTTP support, page breaking, and layout. New PDF properties allow adding JavaScript to generated PDF files. Solaris and SUSE 10 packages are now available.
