The company behind Prince

The Prince formatter is developed, supported and marketed by YesLogic Pty Ltd. YesLogic is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. With a customer-focused attitude and a dedication to quality, we develop innovative software products that are flexible, efficient, affordable and easy to use.

Key team members

• Michael Day, CEO: Michael is the system architect for Prince. He has implemented the CSS processing module, which supports many pioneering CSS features including CSS3 Selectors and Paged Media properties. In 2003, he joined the W3C CSS working group as an invited expert.
• Xuehong Liu, Lead Programmer: Xuehong is the head of engineering at YesLogic and lead programmer of Prince. She has implemented the Prince layout engine, which supports powerful layout features and advanced pagination. She has also implemented SVG support for Prince.
• Håkon Wium Lie, Director: Håkon is a web pioneer, having proposed CSS while working with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1994. Håkon became a devotee when he found that Prince could format his book on CSS (co-authored with Bert Bos) and his PhD thesis. Håkon is a graduate of MIT's Media Lab and is also the CTO of Opera Software.

Jobs

The team is growing. We are currently looking to fill one key position:

• Head of sales

If interested, Please send a brief resumé to jobs@yeslogic.com. Pay attention to the format you use. Principals only, please.

Why trees?

The trees that line our pages grow in the Yarra valley, not far from our Melbourne office. The big eucalyptus trees in the center of the right frame form a strong base for the style of the area. (Wow! We managed to use nine HTML element names in the previous sentence, and it still makes sense. Sort of.) What we are trying to say is that Prince and trees have a lot to do with each other. XML and HTML can be represented in tree-like structures, and the end result is sometimes printed on paper. At this point we should probably encourage you save paper so that trees can live another day. Contrary to public perception, it is possible to read and review documents on screen. However, we have to admit that a beautifully laid out document printed on a nice sheet of paper can be a delightful experience — one that we would recommend to everyone. Just like driving through the Yarra valley.