Prince Overview
"I downloaded your personal edition trial, trying not to be too hopeful (just in case), but in just minutes you've managed to solve using CSS what took us hours before to even get started doing with XSL-FO, and 1000x more elegantly. Woohoo!"
President and Chief Developer
Simian Systems Inc.
"I'd really rather avoid making docbook / xsltproc / fop etc. work. I'm sure it's great that XSLT is Turing-complete, but it's a royal pain to actually use for anything complicated.
With Prince I whipped up a sample XML file and CSS print stylesheet in a few minutes. With the other workflow it took me hours to just get my head around getting started."
Contractor at ExxonMobil Corporation
Prince is a computer program that converts XML and HTML into PDF documents. Prince can read many XML formats, including XHTML and SVG. Prince formats documents according to style sheets written in CSS.
Dynamic data-driven documents
Prince is an ideal printing component for server-based software such as web applications and database systems. Using Prince, data in XML can easily be converted to PDF documents that can be printed, archived or downloaded over the web.
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, scientific journals, novels, and books with extensive illustrations.