Prince: Overview

Dynamic data-driven documents

Prince is an ideal printing component for server-based software, such as web applications that need to print reports or invoices. Using Prince, it is quick and easy to create PDF files that can be printed, archived, or downloaded.

Electronic publishing

Prince can also be used by authors and publishers to typeset and print documents written in HTML, XHTML, or one of the many XML-based document formats. Prince is capable of formatting academic papers, journals, magazines, and books.

Web Standards

HTML, XHTML, XML, SVG
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF
JavaScript / ECMAScript

Powerful Layout Features

Page headers/footers, page numbering and duplex printing.
Tables with automatic layout and running headers/footers.
Multi-column layout, floats and positioned blocks.
Lists with customisable bullets or numbers.
Automatic numbering of lists, headings, sections or figures.
Footnotes, cross-references.

Comprehensive PDF output

PDF links, bookmarks, metadata, and attachments.
PDF Encryption and Document Security.
PDF compression, font embedding, and subsetting.

Easy integration

Prince has integration modules for most server environments, including Java, .Net, ActiveX/COM, ASP, PHP, and ColdFusion.
Prince provides a command line interface, allowing it to be called easily from batch files and shell scripts or integrated with other programs to form document publishing pipelines.

Graphical User Interface

Prince provides a Graphical User Interface for Windows that can be used as a user-friendly document conversion tool or for testing purposes.

Prince

A great way of getting web content onto paper.

Convert HTML documents to PDF.

Beautiful printing with CSS.

Now with JavaScript!

Even better SVG

Fonts & Internationalization