This is a development roadmap for Prince that lists upcoming features and improvements. Feature priority is determined by customer feedback, level of difficulty, resource availability, and compatibility with other development work. Please note that the order of items in the roadmap is not guaranteed and may change at any time.
Last updated 17 May 2013
TODO
Support the Image constructor in the JavaScript DOM.
Done
2012-08-15
Support the SVG stroke-miterlimit property.
Done
2012-09-11
Support the DOMParser interface in the JavaScript DOM.
Done
2012-09-12
Support the HTML5 canvas element and JavaScript API.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2012-09-12
Support absolute positioning on the @footnotes area.
Done
2012-09-24
Allow floats and footnotes to break across pages by default.
Done
2012-09-24
Support the max-height property on the @footnotes area.
(ref)
Done
2012-09-24
Fix bug where footnotes in table headers and captions are repeated if the
table breaks across multiple columns or pages.
(ref)
Done
2012-09-24
Support the transform and transform-origin properties on margin boxes.
Done
2012-09-24
Update Prince Java wrapper to add support for converting multiple input
documents.
Done
2012-09-25
Add convert method to Java wrapper that takes a filename/URL string for the
input document and an OutputStream for the PDF output.
(ref)
Done
2012-09-25
Change the prince-link property so that it no longer affects the :link
selector.
Done
2012-10-02
Support inline footnotes with "float: prince-inline-footnote | prince-column-inline-footnote".
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2012-10-02
Add a non-breaking space after footnote markers.
Done
2012-10-03
Support the background-size property.
Done
2012-10-10
Support multiple background images on a single element.
Done
2012-10-16
Support the background-clip and background-origin properties.
Done
2012-10-16
Support padding-box as a value for the box-sizing property.
Done
2012-10-16
Fix bug affecting the layout of page margin boxes.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2012-10-22
Fix bug affecting tables with collapsed borders and cells that span rows
across page breaks.
(ref)
Done
2012-10-23
Allow a trailing comma in JavaScript object literals.
Done
2012-10-23
Fix bug where JavaScript parseFloat function is failing if string contains
non-digit characters.
Done
2012-10-26
Support more JavaScript DOM properties: document.head, script.type,
option.selected, option.disabled, input.type, input.checked, input.disabled.
Done
2012-10-26
Support JavaScript DOM properties window.location.host, hostname, port, and
pathname.
Done
2012-10-29
Support the JavaScript methods Object.create, Object.defineProperty, and
Object.defineProperties.
Done
2012-10-30
Fix bug where nodeName and tagName properties in the JavaScript DOM should
return uppercase values for HTML element names.
(ref)
Done
2012-10-30
Support CSS background gradients.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2012-11-09
Fix bug affecting nested SVG patterns/gradients and SVG images used as
repeating backgrounds.
Done
2012-11-09
Improve speed of JavaScript evaluation, eg. for generating QR codes.
(ref)
Done
2012-11-09
For tables with specified height, take specified row heights into account
before dividing table height across rows.
Done
2012-11-12
Fix bug in which shrink to fit blocks such as floats and inline blocks
will have an incorrect width when they contain tables with
cells that have a specified width.
(ref)
Done
2012-11-13
Fix bug where JavaScript RegExp lastIndex property is not writable.
Done
2012-11-16
Support JavaScript DOM properties link.title and link.disabled.
Done
2012-11-16
Support HighlightJS.
(ref)
Done
2012-11-16
Update Prince PHP wrapper to add support for converting multiple input
documents.
(ref)
Done
2012-11-22
Support "text-overflow: clip | ellipsis".
(ref)
Done
2013-01-10
Support non-ASCII identifiers in JavaScript.
Done
2013-01-10
Fix warning "get_gpos_adjust: pos_pair_unknown" triggered by complex OpenType
fonts, eg. some Hebrew and Syriac fonts.
Done
2013-01-10
Support OpenType font features for rendering Syriac text.
(ref)
Done
2013-01-15
Draw crop marks so that they extend into the page bleed area.
Done
2013-03-01
Fix bug where pixel units in SVG are not being treated the same as unitless
coordinates.
Done
2013-03-01
Support vertical text layout.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2013-03-01
Add "prince-footnote-policy" property that can push footnote calls to the next
page if there is not enough space to fit the footnote body on the same page.
(ref)
Done
2013-03-14
Fix bug where background and border properties do not apply to :blank pages.
(ref)
Done
2013-03-18
For SVG images without a viewBox attribute, use the width and height
attributes to determine the initial coordinate system.
Done
2013-03-20
Issue a warning when a footnote ends up on the following page from the
footnote marker.
(ref)
Done
2013-03-21
Support CSS white-space property and xml:space="preserve" on SVG tspan elements.
Done
2013-03-22
Support SVG tref elements.
Done
2013-03-22
Fix bug affecting CSS3 Transforms where matrix() translation offsets were
incorrect scaled and inverted.
(ref)
Done
2013-03-22
Fix bug where page floats can overlap with table footers.
Done
2013-03-26
Apply border-break property to table elements.
(ref)
Done
2013-04-04
Accept local(FontName) without quotes in @font-face declaration src property.
(ref)
Done
2013-04-10
Support the text-decoration properties on SVG text elements.
Done
2013-04-11
Add IDs to generated PDF files to improve support for PDF/A and PDF/X.
Done
2013-04-18
Add Japanese fonts to default serif and sans-serif font families.
(ref)
Done
2013-04-30
Support basic media queries.
(ref)
Done
2013-05-01
Fix bug affecting :nth-of-type(n+4) and similar CSS3 Selectors.
Done
2013-05-14
Rename border-break property to box-decoration-break.
(ref)
Done
2013-05-17
Support PDF/A-1b.
Support tagged PDF and PDF/A-1a. (ref, ref, ref, ref)
Make the JavaScript DOM faster, particularly live node lists returned by getElementsByTagName and getElementsByClassName. (ref, ref)
Support the Node.contains and Node.compareDocumentPosition methods in the JavaScript DOM. (ref, ref)
Support querySelector and querySelectorAll methods in the JavaScript DOM. (ref, ref)
Support PrismJS. (ref)
Support Typed Array objects in the JavaScript DOM.
Support XMLHttpRequest objects in the JavaScript DOM for AJAX requests.
Support window.frames in the JavaScript DOM.
Support document.cookie in the JavaScript DOM. (ref)
Support CSSStyleDeclaration.setProperty method in the JavaScript DOM.
Support the getComputedStyle method in the JavaScript DOM. (ref)
Support getBBox method in the SVG JavaScript DOM. (ref)
Support common JavaScript charting/graphing libraries, such as FusionCharts/Highcharts, d3, and MathJax. (ref, ref, ref)
Update Prince ActiveX/COM wrapper to add support for converting multiple input documents. (ref)
Update Prince wrappers to support better error reporting. (ref, ref)
HTML5: Support SVG elements and attributes with mixed-case names. (ref, ref)
HTML5: Support the menu element. (ref)
HTML5: Support the new meta charset syntax. (ref, ref)
HTML5: Remove redundant warning when HTML elements have identical id and name attributes. (ref)
HTML5: Fix bug where a null byte in HTML files terminates parsing. (ref)
HTML5: Fix bug where text between table cells results in new table column. (ref)
HTML5: Fix issues involving special characters in script elements. (ref)
Fix multiple issues affecting Windows GUI. (ref, ref, ref, ref, ref)
Release Prince 9.
Design a mechanism for page headers/footers with dynamic height. (ref)
Design a mechanism for creating tables with a specified height suitable for invoices and other traditional forms. (ref, ref, ref)
Design a mechanism for styling content differently depending on which column it appears in. (ref)
Design a mechanism for changing from one column to two on the second page. (ref)
Design a mechanism to combine identical page references for indexing. (ref, ref, ref)
Design a mechanism to control the orientation of page headers/footers on landscape pages. (A new CSS property for @page rules?) (ref, ref, ref)
Design a mechanism for creating landscape pages that doesn't interrupt text flow. (ref)
Design a mechanism for combining page floats and named pages. (ref, ref, ref)
Change the base element so that relative URLs are resolved relative to the document URL for compliance with HTML5.
Support ICC color profiles. (ref)
Support TIFF CCITT Group 4 fax encoding format for compressed images. (ref)
Allow SVG images to be repeated without increasing PDF file size. (ref, ref)
Normalise input filenames to avoid missing links on Windows. (ref, ref)
Add a --cookie command-line option (and associated Java/.NET API) for specifying cookies and associated site/path/expiry/secure flags. (ref, ref)
Support the Khmer and Burmese (Myanmar) scripts. (ref, ref, ref)
Investigate multiple issues affecting table cell width calculation. (ref, ref, ref)
Fix bug where JavaScript parseInt function only works for 31-bit integer values. (ref)
Add prince-no-fallback default font family that prints warnings when accessed. (ref)
Support reading multiple input documents from standard input. (ref)
Workaround bug in MacOS X Preview affecting OpenType CFF fonts. (ref)
Support the CSS tab-size property. (ref)
Support tooltips / popups in generated PDF files, eg. taken from the HTML title attribute. (ref)
Remove support for "flow to start" as this can be done better with JavaScript.
Support the U+2060 word joiner character. (ref)
Fix bug where bookmarks are out of order due to "float: top". (ref)
Allow missing glyphs to fallback to U+FFFD instead of question mark. (ref)
Investigate issue involving max-height on blocks containing images. (ref)
Add a mechanism for disabling OpenType ligatures. (ref, ref)
Investigate potential float bugs. (ref, ref)
Support embedding audio and video files inside PDF output. (ref, ref)
Reduce memory usage even more for large documents. (ref, ref)
Fix bug where line numbers for error messages in <script> tags are relative to the start of the element, not the start of the file.
Fix bug affecting opacity property in SVG. (ref, ref)
Apply the opacity property to bitmap images within SVG.
Support the <textPath> element in SVG. (ref, ref)
Support global defs in SVG. (ref)
Support the SVG foreignObject element. (ref, ref, ref, ref)
Support internal links to and from SVG content. (ref)
Add PDF metadata required for compliance with PDF/X1-a. (ref, ref, ref, ref)
Improve spacing and layout in MathML equations. (ref, ref, ref, ref)
Support line-breaking in inline MathML equations. (ref)
Integrate the STIX Fonts with Prince for improved MathML support.
Support scoped style elements. (ref)
Add man page to all Linux packages. (ref)
Provide a mechanism for automatically breaking long words that overlap narrow table cells or columns. (ref)
Add better warning messages for invalid CSS style sheet syntax. (ref, ref, ref, ref ref)
Be more selective about breaking lines after arbitrary hyphens. (ref)
Support non-printable layers (optional content groups?) in PDF files. (ref, ref, ref)
Support AES encryption for PDF files.
Links to IDs in the same document should still work even if base URL is different. (ref)
Support percentage values for the prince-border-clip property. (See CSS4). (ref)
Add new options to the PHP wrapper. (ref)
The root element background should bleed to the trim box if there are no margins, padding, or borders on the page.
Support Thai line-breaking. (ref, ref)
Support loading hyphenation dictionaries from HTTP URLs. (ref)
Additional ideas for improvements to footnotes. (ref)
Make empty footnote calls not create a line box. (ref)
Allow multiple references to the same footnote. (ref)
Flip landscape pages to ensure that they end up correctly oriented when printed. (ref)
Investigate issue with :blank pages and page-break-after property. (ref)
Investigate automatic page renumbering in headers/footers. (ref)
Investigate method for controlling hyphenation at the end of right-facing pages, and other hyphenation improvements. (ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref)
Support kashidas for the justification of Arabic text. (ref)
Support subsetting for OpenType fonts with CFF outlines. (ref)
Fix bug where fonts referenced using @font-face rules may be artificially emboldened or slanted unnecessarily, if they claim not be bold or italic. (ref, ref)
Text labelled with the "gb2312" encoding should be decoded using the newer backwards compatible "gb18030" encoding.
Fix bugs affecting string-set applied to display: none elements. (ref)
Investigate possible bug causing crash on MacOS X. (FIXED?) (ref, ref)
Enable shrink-to-fit by default, ensure that it isn't fooled by invisible overlapping blocks, and that it applies to all pages. (ref)
Generate interactive PDF forms from HTML forms. (ref)
Add support for the CSS3 text-shadow property. (ref, ref, ref)
Add support for the CSS3 box-shadow property. (ref)
Fix bug where letter-spacing is not applied elegantly. (ref)
Support SVG fonts.
Support the xml:lang attribute to determine the language used for selecting OpenType layout features.
Support CSS3 properties for control of justification. (ref)
Support optical alignment and hanging punctuation for neater margins. (ref, ref)
Support graphite font tables. (ref)
Support the new font-variant properties for accessing numeric OpenType features described here.
Allow non-displayed elements such as title to create PDF bookmarks. (ref)
Allow arbitrary counters to be incremented on @page rules. (ref)
Fix bug where named strings are not updated in table headers and footers. (ref)
Support the overflow-x and overflow-y properties defined in CSS 3. (ref)
Support digital signatures on PDF files. (ref)
Support the "column-break-inside" property. (ref)
Add a case-insensitive attribute selector to support HTML 4 in the default style sheets. (ref)
Support the HTML align and valign attributes correctly so that valign inherits and align also applies to blocks. (ref)
Fix bug in which leading newline characters are stripped from absolutely positioned inline elements with white-space: pre.
Implement proper tab-stops in elements with white-space: pre instead of replacing tabs with spaces.
Support standard icc-color mechanism for including CMYK colors in SVG. (ref)
Add support for new Prince-specific CSS properties for specifying PDF metadata fields such as title, author, keywords. (ref, ref)
Specify a scale for pages when crop marks are enabled so that when they are viewed in Acrobat the trim box will fill the window. (ref)
Allow the user to disable HTTP proxying on a host by host basis. (ref)
Print the filename and line number if available when warning of missing glyphs for certain characters.
Support Arabic subtending marks, U+600 to U+603.
Add padding-inside / padding-outside and border-inside / border-outside properties for duplex page layouts. (ref, ref)
Support rendering directly to a PNG or JPEG image. (ref)
Support a list of exceptions in hyphenation pattern resources. (ref)
Provide a mechanism similar to the widows/orphans properties for controlling page breaking in lists and tables. (ref)
Add optional warnings for page breaks that leave too much space at the bottom of pages and content that overlaps the page boundaries.
Fix bug where XInclude does not support HTTP resources parsed as text.
Add a mechanism to control whether the first page of the document is treated as a left or right facing page. (ref, ref)
Provide a mechanism for creating PDF annotations. (ref, ref, ref)
Retrieve multiple resources concurrently over HTTP to reduce latency. (ref)
Support creating multiple PDF output files, for example one PDF file per chapter of the input document.
Support the opacity property. (ref, ref, ref)
Support the SVG stop-opacity property. (ref)
Support glyph scaling for justification.
Fix bug where internal links to empty anchor elements in a block context don't work. (ref, ref, ref)
Remove limitation affecting concave float layouts. (ref, ref)
Support loading PDF files as images. (ref, ref, ref)
Fix bug where multiple floats can overlap if they are pulled out of their containing block by negative margins.
Change margin collapsing for empty blocks to match the CSS 2.1 specification.
Fix bug affecting table headers repeated on multiple pages in tables with collapsed borders. The width of the collapsed bottom border of the table header needs to be recalculated for each page that the table header is repeated on. (ref)
Support making generated PDF files commentable in Acrobat Reader. [This may not be possible as it requires a digital signature from Adobe, and is unnecessary from Adobe Reader X onwards anyway]. (ref)
DONE
Fix bug in which Prince is ignoring fonts on MacOS X if the font name
contains the modifier "Book" instead of "Regular" or "Roman".
(ref)
Done
2007-05-23
Fix bug in which Windows-style CR/LF newlines in <pre>
elements in HTML documents (not XHTML documents) incorrectly cause double line
breaks.
Done
2007-05-24
Add further support for the HTML textarea element. Support the rows
attribute, change white-space to pre-wrap and clip text that overflows.
Done
2007-05-28
Fix bug affecting the prince-jpeg-quality property when applied to grayscale
JPEG images.
Done
2007-05-28
Support the value attribute on the HTML li element, for explicitly specifying
the list item number.
Done
2007-05-29
Change @page background to cover entire page box, not just page padding area,
for consistency with the CSS3 Paged Media specification.
Done
2007-05-29
Fix bug in which
elements containing only floated or positioned content still have a non-zero
height, as if the content was still in the normal flow.
(ref)
Done
2007-05-31
Fix performance regression in CSS parser.
Done
2007-06-08
Add --media command line argument to select available style sheets based on
their media type, eg. "print" or "screen"; default is "print".
Done
2007-06-14
Shrink wide web pages down to fit the paper width by adding a new property
to @page rules.
(ref)
Done
2007-06-25
Change margin collapsing at the top of first pages. Currently, top
margins are thrown away at the top of every page, however they should be kept
at the top of first pages, for consistency with browsers and the CSS3 Paged
Media spec.
Done
2007-06-25
Support @font-face rules that specify format("truetype") after
the URL in the src property.
Done
2007-06-25
Fix bug in which the aspect ratio of images with an explicitly specified width
and height is not preserved if the image width is reduced by the max-width
property.
(ref)
Done
2007-06-27
Fix bug in which tables ignore percentage height values.
(ref)
Done
2007-06-27
Fix bug in which user induced column breaks incorrectly cause a page break
when there is content preceding the columns.
(ref)
Done
2007-06-28
Fix Linux and MacOS X install script so that it can be run from any directory,
not just the current directory.
Done
2007-06-29
Release Prince 6.0 rev 2, including packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
and 4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, openSUSE Linux 10.2.
Done
2007-06-29
Support HTML anchors that use the name attribute instead of the id
attribute.
Done
2007-07-06
Fix bug affecting vertical alignment of inline blocks whose content is longer
than their specified height.
Done
2007-07-11
Support the HTML iframe element.
Done
2007-07-11
Support line-breaking between images.
Done
2007-07-12
Support the clear attribute on the HTML br element.
Done
2007-07-12
Detect overlapping content when performing shrink to fit on pages.
Done
2007-07-13
Fix bug in which absolutely positioned content may be duplicated in some
situations.
(ref)
Done
2007-07-16
Fix bug in which blocks in the normal flow with auto height and overflow not
set to visible are not expanding in height to fit descendant floats.
Done
2007-07-17
Fix bug in which images that occupy no space will result in PDF files that
cannot be opened by Acrobat.
Done
2007-07-19
Fix bug in which the page-break-inside property is being ignored on tbody
elements.
(ref)
Done
2007-07-19
Support the old SVG MIME type "image/svg-xml", which was deprecated in
November 2000 but is still in use on some pages.
Done
2007-07-26
Fix bug in which images within hyperlinks are not always clickable unless they
fall within the bounding box of the link element, which is inconsistent with
the behaviour of web browsers.
(ref)
Done
2007-07-26
Support HTTP authentication and add two new command line arguments,
--http-user and --http-password.
(ref)
Done
2007-07-27
Support the alt attribute on the HTML img element.
Done
2007-07-29
Support links and cross-references into and out of footnotes.
(ref)
Done
2007-07-30
Add support for a new property for specifying the resolution of background
images, similar to the existing image resolution property.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2007-07-30
Support absolute and relative positioning for elements that are taken out of
the normal flow and placed in a page margin box.
(ref)
Done
2007-07-31
Support printing in the bleed area of the page when crop marks are enabled
and add a new property to control the size of the bleed area.
(ref)
Done
2007-08-03
Support SVG background images.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2007-08-06
Improve performance for formatting long documents with lots of text.
Done
2007-08-10
Enable HTTPS support in libcurl.
(ref)
Done
2007-08-13
Allow hyphenation regardless of text alignment.
(ref)
Done
2007-08-13
Fix bug affecting large images loaded from data URLs on MacOS X.
Done
2007-08-20
Build a universal binary for MacOS X that runs on Intel and PowerPC systems.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2007-08-20
Build a Prince package for FreeBSD 4.8.
Done
2007-08-20
Release Prince 6.0 rev 3.
Done
2007-08-21
Support TrueType font subsetting to reduce PDF file size.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2007-08-27
Support line-breaking between Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters.
(ref)
Done
2007-08-28
Improve performance of text hyphenation in multi-column layouts.
Done
2007-08-31
Fix bug where the page background image is not printing in the bleed area when
crop marks are enabled and some background properties are being ignored on
@page rules.
(ref)
Done
2007-09-04
Fix bug affecting links between documents without fragment identifiers when
processing multiple input documents.
(ref)
Done
2007-09-07
Fix bug where page headers and footers flowed to the start of the document
behave strangely when multiple input documents are being processed.
(ref)
Done
2007-09-10
Support multiple pseudo-elements in CSS selectors so that generated footnotes
and list item markers can be styled. (For example, ::after::marker).
Done
2007-09-17
Fix bug affecting page breaking in tables with table-row-groups that have
page-break-inside: avoid.
(ref)
Done
2007-09-21
Fix bug affecting page breaking in tables with cells that span many rows.
(ref)
Done
2007-09-21
Fix bug affecting tables with baseline aligned cells that overlap the page
boundaries in some situations.
Done
2007-09-21
Fix bug in which complex tables can cause an internal error.
Done
2007-09-22
Update the .NET interface for Prince to add new Convert() methods
that take an input stream and a filename, or a filename and an output stream,
or a string and an output stream. Also, add a helper class that can be used as
a HttpResponse filter by ASP.NET pages.
(ref)
Done
2007-10-01
Change install script to preserve the existing license file instead of
overwriting it.
Done
2007-10-04
Release Prince 6.0 rev 4.
Done
2007-10-04
Add a new caption-page property for controlling whether table captions should
be repeated when a table is broken over multiple pages.
(ref)
Done
2007-10-09
Stop libcurl from adding "Pragma: no-cache" headers to each HTTP request,
which can degrade performance when caching is desired.
Done
2007-10-15
Add new --http-proxy command-line argument for specifying a proxy server to be
used when retrieving resources over HTTP.
Done
2007-10-16
Cache failed HTTP requests to avoid repeatedly trying to retrieve the same
resource.
Done
2007-10-16
Add support for presentational attributes on the HTML hr element and
support for the HTML s (strike-through) element.
Done
2007-10-17
Improve margin collapsing behaviour for blocks that clear floats.
Done
2007-10-29
Improve page breaking of blocks with page-break-before/after: avoid.
(ref)
Done
2007-10-29
Fix bug in which "page-break-after: always" is not correctly applying to table
rows.
Done
2007-10-29
Fix bug in which some pages will not be matched by the
:blank page class, even if they are actually blank.
Done
2007-10-29
Fix bug in which properties applied to page margin boxes were not taking the
specificity of the page selector into account when cascading.
Done
2007-10-29
Support the image/pjpeg MIME type as an alias for image/jpeg.
(ref)
Done
2007-11-04
Support the HTML meta tag with a name of "Generator" by copying it into the
PDF "Creator" metadata field.
Done
2007-11-06
Fix bug affecting string-set with "first" page-policy when multiple documents
are in use.
Done
2007-11-17
Apply the page-break-inside property to table rows as well as cells.
(ref)
Done
2007-11-17
Fix bug in which page-break-after: avoid can actually cause unwanted page
breaks when applied to the last element in a block.
Done
2007-11-20
Improve column balancing and the treatment of page floats and footnotes on
pages with columns.
Done
2007-11-20
Don't download Flash content referenced from the HTML object element.
Done
2007-12-11
Support the HTML nowrap attribute on table cells.
(ref)
Done
2007-12-18
Support the deprecated HTML strike element.
Done
2007-12-18
Change the table border-spacing property to be inherited.
Done
2007-12-18
Correctly render HTML img elements that have an alt attribute but no src
attribute.
Done
2007-12-19
Ensure that center margin box takes full width of page header if an empty
element is flowed to it and no left or right margin box has been
specified.
Done
2007-12-20
Fix bug affecting interaction between named pages and left/right page breaks.
(ref)
Done
2007-12-20
Remember cookies for subsequent HTTP requests in the same session.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2007-12-21
Fix internal error caused by replaced elements with zero width.
Done
2007-12-21
Fix shrink-wrap issue when float contains table with specified width.
(ref)
Done
2007-12-27
Fix page breaking issue when float is immediately followed by page break.
Done
2007-12-27
Fix bug affecting the currentColor keyword in SVG.
(ref)
Done
2007-12-28
Add a new @prince-pdf CSS rule that can be used for applying Prince-specific
PDF properties.
Done
2007-12-29
Add a new Prince-specific property, "prince-pdf-script", for adding JavaScript
to generated PDF files. The primary use case for this property is making PDF
files that print automatically when opened.
Done
2007-12-29.
Add a new Prince-specific property, "prince-pdf-page-mode", for specifying
whether the PDF bookmarks should be displayed when the PDF file is opened.
This property may also specify that the PDF should be displayed fullscreen.
(ref)
Done
2007-12-29
Update Prince PHP interface to support basic HTTP authentication.
(ref)
Done
2008-01-03
Add a new Prince-specific property, "prince-pdf-print-scaling", for specifying
whether pages should be scaled when the PDF file is printed. By default this
is left up to the PDF viewing application.
(ref)
Done
2008-01-07
Fix bug affecting footnotes and page floats in content that has been flowed
into page margin boxes.
Done
2008-01-07
Fix bug affecting internal links on Windows.
(ref)
Done
2008-01-09
Fix bug affecting automatic layout for tables with a specified width.
(ref)
Done
2008-01-11
Build a Prince package for SUSE 10.
Done
2008-01-14
Build a Prince package for Solaris 10 / Intel.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2008-01-14
Release Prince 6.0 rev 5.
Done
2008-01-14
Fix bug affecting floats with negative margins that are wider than the
page.
Done
2008-01-21
Fix bug affecting the style attribute in SVG.
(ref)
Done
2008-01-22
Fix bug affecting style sheets that begin with a UTF-8 byte order mark.
(ref)
Done
2008-01-22
Fix bug in which "hyphens: manual" is not enabling processing of soft-hyphens.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2008-01-24
Improve performance when hyphenation is enabled.
Done
2008-01-26
Avoid breaking after hyphens that follow or precede a number.
Done
2008-01-27
Fix bug causing line breaks after punctuation preceding a hyphenated word when
hyphenation is disabled.
Done
2008-01-28
Support "hyphens: prince-expand-all" to debug hyphenation patterns.
Done
2008-01-28
Fix bug affecting hyphenation of words adjacent to certain punctuation
characters.
(ref)
Done
2008-01-28
Fix bug in which column floats and footnotes are not always placed at the very
bottom of the column.
(ref)
Done
2008-01-30
Fix bug in which two words joined by punctuation such as em-dashes are
treated as one word for hyphenation purposes.
Done
2008-02-01
Fix issue affecting column width in automatic table layout with colspan cells.
(ref)
Done
2008-02-04
Fix issue where multiple redundant error messages are produced if an image
can't be loaded.
Done
2008-02-05
Change warning level of glyph fallback messages.
Done
2008-02-09
Support the type attribute on HTML lists.
Done
2008-02-14
Support different list marker styles on nested HTML lists.
Done
2008-02-14
Fix bug in which "." is loaded if an HTML img element has no src
attribute.
Done
2008-02-17
Fix bug in which sibling selectors are not always correctly applied.
(ref)
Done
2008-02-22
Support prince-flow() as well as flow() on the content property.
(ref)
Done
2008-02-24
Fix bug in which page-break-after: avoid can actually cause unwanted page
breaks when applied to the last row in a table.
(ref)
Done
2008-03-04
Build a Prince package for Solaris 10 / Sparc.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2008-03-05
Fix bug leaving unnecessary page break after page floats within named pages.
(ref)
Done
2008-03-05
Add prince-page-group property to control when a named page group starts or
restarts.
Done
2008-03-05
Fix bug affecting some tables with cells that span multiple columns.
(ref)
Done
2008-03-19
Support rowspan=0 from HTML 4.
Done
2008-03-19
Fix bug affecting borders and margins applied to images.
Done
2008-03-20
Fix bug affecting columns containing large column floats.
Done
2008-03-24
Fix bug affecting width calculation for inline blocks.
(ref)
Done
2008-03-24
Improve interaction between columns, page floats and footnotes.
Done
2008-03-26
Fix bug affecting mailto: links.
Done
2008-04-06
Support new prince-trim property to specify the size of the trim box when crop
marks are enabled.
(ref)
Done
2008-04-07
Fix "bad argument" warning affecting some fonts on MacOS X Leopard.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2008-04-10
Support external "cookie jar" files for specifying authentication cookies.
(ref)
Done
2008-04-10
Change cross-reference links and bookmarks to link to the location of the
target content on the page, not just the top of the page on which the content
appears.
Done
2008-04-15
Fix bug affecting table cells that span rows and break across multiple pages.
(ref)
Done
2008-04-22
Fix bug affecting the width of table cells containing text with
soft-hyphens.
Done
2008-04-24
Accept SIGPIPE to avoid zombie processes when running Prince under PHP.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2008-04-24
Fix bug affecting the width of table cells containing manually hyphenated
words.
Done
2008-04-28
Don't use the specified HTTP proxy server for localhost URLs.
(ref)
Done
2008-04-28
Support links to local PDF files with PDF open parameters.
Done
2008-04-30
Fix bug in default style sheets affecting HTML valign attribute on table
cells.
(ref)
Done
2008-05-01
Improve treatment of landscape pages.
(ref)
Done
2008-05-01
Build a Prince package for FreeBSD 6.x.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2008-05-03
Support TrueType Collection fonts on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris.
Done
2008-05-04
Fix bug in which RPM upgrade can overwrite existing license file.
(ref)
Done
2008-05-06
Release Prince 6.0 rev 6.
Done
2008-05-06
Improve performance for documents containing many id attributes.
(ref)
Done
2008-05-07
Support the image/x-png MIME type used by Internet Explorer.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2008-05-09
Fix where some font family names were hidden on Linux, FreeBSD and
Solaris.
Done
2008-05-21
Fix bug affecting Prince on Windows 2000.
(ref)
Done
2008-05-22
Fix bug creating zombie processes when running Prince from CGI scripts on
Windows.
(ref)
Done
2008-06-18
Reduce memory usage for documents containing many elements and CSS rules, such
as documents with thousands of table cells.
(ref)
Done
2008-06-18
Fix bug affecting the layout of inline elements with horizontal borders that
span multiple lines.
Done
2008-06-18
Fix bug affecting the width of tables with collapsed borders.
Done
2008-06-18
Support the text-decoration properties on table cells and rows.
Done
2008-07-01
Support the min-width and max-width properties on table cells.
Done
2008-07-01
Fix bug affecting hyphenated words breaking across pages.
Done
2008-07-01
Fix bug where the overflow property is ignored on table cells.
(ref)
Done
2008-07-01
Fix bug where the page break properties do not apply inside table cells.
(ref)
Done
2008-07-02
Allow block-level tables to be pushed aside by floats.
Done
2008-07-05
Fix bug affecting the hyphenate-before and hyphenate-after properties when
using non-ASCII hyphenation patterns such as Russian.
(ref)
Done
2008-07-21
Fix bug affecting the resolution of TIFF images.
Done
2008-07-31
Support CMYK TIFF and JPEG images.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2008-07-31
Update string-set values on each page for content that has been flowed into
the page margin boxes.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2008-08-06
Fix bug on Solaris where bitmap fonts can hide TrueType fonts with the same
name.
Done
2008-08-13
Change default styling on HTML <pre> element to add top and bottom
margin for compatibility with browsers.
Done
2008-08-13
Change default styling on HTML <br> elements for compatibility with
browsers.
Done
2008-08-13
Release Prince 6.0 rev 7.
Done
2008-09-17
Support the image/jpg MIME type as an alias for image/jpeg.
(ref)
Done
2008-10-01
Support "date" as a meta tag in HTML and XHTML documents.
(ref)
Done
2008-11-11
Support repeating background images using PDF patterns to reduce file size.
(ref)
Done
2008-11-13
Support tiling patterns in SVG.
Done
2008-11-13
Fix bug affecting the hyphenation of words with leading punctuation, such as
quotes.
(ref)
Done
2008-11-17
Ensure that ActiveX/COM interface does not pop-up message boxes on error.
(ref)
Done
2008-11-18
Fix bug affecting the width calculation of cells in fixed-width tables.
Done
2008-11-18
Fix bug affecting line-height for inline elements when vertical-align is
set.
Done
2008-12-06
Remove support for the text-height property, which has been dropped from CSS
3.
Done
2008-12-06
Fix performance issue where Prince reloads SVG images each time they are
referenced.
Done
2008-12-28
Fix bug affecting line height when small-caps are enabled.
Done
2009-01-12
Fix bug where text-decoration does not apply to page margin boxes.
(ref)
Done
2009-01-20
Fix bug where progress counter is reset by page breaks in the document.
(ref)
Done
2009-01-20
Fix bug where no Accept-Encoding HTTP header was being sent and responses
using gzip transfer encoding were not processed correctly.
Done
2009-01-26
Extend page borders into the bleed area as well as page backgrounds.
(ref)
Done
2009-01-28
Fix bug where the column-break-before and column-break-after properties are
not working.
(ref)
Done
2009-02-03
Fix bug where text-decoration does not apply to a span full of nbsp
characters.
(ref)
Done
2009-02-04
Fix bug where only a limited number of documents can be added to the GUI in
one operation.
(ref)
Done
2009-02-11
Fix bug affecting HTML files that begin with a UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM).
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2009-02-13
Fix bug where some UTF-8 HTML files are incorrectly processed.
(ref)
Done
2009-02-13
Fix bug where a vertical tab character in HTML files terminates parsing.
Done
2009-02-13
Release Prince 6.0 rev 8.
Done
2009-02-16
Support bidirectional text and layout.
This includes support for the UNICODE bidirectional layout algorithm, the CSS
direction and unicode-bidi properties, and the HTML dir attribute and bdo
element.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2007-12-29
Support text-transform for Greek, Cyrillic and other scripts, not just
Latin.
Done
2008-01-18
Fix bug in which list item markers are not displayed on the right-hand side of
the list item in a right-to-left context.
Done
2008-02-27
Support bidi mirroring for paired characters such as brackets, parentheses and
quotes.
Done
2008-03-03
Support different levels of boldness for the font-weight property.
(ref)
Done
2008-03-24
Support Arabic shaping with OpenType fonts.
Done
2008-03-26
Support Latin ligatures with OpenType fonts.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2008-03-26
Support Devanagari shaping with OpenType fonts.
Done
2008-04-23
Add hyphenation dictionaries for more languages: da, de, el, es, fi, fr, is,
it, lt, pl, ru, sl, sv.
Done
2008-05-27
Support the OpenType mset feature for combining marks with base glyphs.
Done
2008-08-31
Fix bug affecting Arabic shaping where the joining class of some letters was
being ignored.
(ref)
Done
2008-08-31
Support positioning of diacritical marks using the OpenType mark feature.
(ref)
Done
2008-08-31
Support positioning of multiple diacritical marks using the OpenType mkmk
feature.
(ref)
Done
2008-09-02
Support positioning of diacritical marks relative to ligatures.
Done
2008-09-09
Support kerning information found in OpenType fonts for the Latin, Greek and
Cyrillic scripts.
(ref)
Done
2008-09-12
Support the calt and rlig substitution features for Arabic.
Done
2008-09-12
Support the ccmp substitution feature for all scripts.
Done
2008-09-12
Support for cursive attachment positioning.
Done
2008-09-15
Support small-caps found in OpenType fonts.
Done
2008-09-15
Support Bengali shaping with OpenType fonts.
Done
2008-09-23
Support Gurmukhi (Punjabi) shaping with OpenType fonts.
Done
2008-09-23
Support Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and
Malayalam shaping with OpenType fonts.
Done
2007-10-24
Support OpenType CFF fonts (.otf files).
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2008-11-07
Synthesize bold and italic fonts in the PDF output when a true bold or italic
font is not available.
(ref)
Done
2008-11-25
Optimise OpenType layout support by checking in advance whether a font
supports a particular feature, eg. kerning or ligatures.
Done
2009-01-08
Fix bug where the "inherit" keyword was not correctly applied to page margin
boxes.
Done
2009-01-19
Allow footnotes to be specified using the float property.
Done
2009-01-26
Allow multiple page selectors on the same @page rule.
(ref)
Done
2009-02-26
Improve font scanning on Linux.
Done
2009-02-26
Fix bug affecting Date meta element in XHTML.
(ref)
Done
2009-04-01
Allow absolutely positioned blocks to extend beyond page border.
(ref)
Done
2009-04-13
Break unbalanced columns to fit in blocks with specified height.
(ref)
Done
2009-04-15
Fix bug where blocks with specified height could break across pages.
(ref)
Done
2009-04-15
Support the box-sizing property.
Done
2009-04-24
Add a new property, prince-pdf-destination, to create named destinations in
generated PDF files.
Done
2009-05-06
Fix bug affecting TrueType Collection fonts on Windows.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-12
Improve font scanning on MacOS X by using CoreText API.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-14
Fix bug where margin box backgrounds do not extend into the page bleed area.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-19
Fix bug where page background are rendered incorrectly on landscape pages.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-21
Fix bug where Prince could fail to render some arrangements of floating blocks.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-21
Support the TeX algorithm for high-quality line-breaking and justification.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2009-05-21
Allow the last word in a column or page to be hyphenated.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2009-05-21
Fix bug affecting the height of blocks with "overflow: hidden" containing
floats.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-22
Support four values for the prince-trim and prince-bleed properties, similar
to margins and padding.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-24
Fix bug affecting the merging of related font subsets.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-24
Add support for times to Date meta element in XHTML.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-24
Fix bug where all pages in generated PDF files share the same resources
dictionary for fonts and images.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-25
Add a new property, prince-pdf-link-type, to control whether web or file links
are created in generated PDF files.
Done
2009-05-27
Change the way @font-face rules are processed to follow the latest draft of the
CSS3 Fonts module.
Done
2009-06-01
Support the unicode-range descriptor on @font-face rules.
Done
2009-06-01
Allow the page counter to be incremented on block elements.
(ref)
Done
2009-06-02
Support counter-reset and counter-increment for the pages counter on block
elements.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2009-06-03
Automatically escape brace characters appearing inside URLs.
(ref)
Done
2009-06-03
Support the new email input type defined in HTML5.
Done
2009-06-12
Expand the default fonts style sheet to provide @font-face rules for more
supported scripts.
Done
2009-06-22
Add a --log-stats command-line option for printing document statistics such as
the total page count.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2009-06-23
Add an experimental prince-opentype() value to the font-variant property for
accessing extra features found in OpenType fonts, such as decorative swashes
and old-style numerals.
(ref)
Done
2009-06-23
Upgrade to libcurl 7.19.5.
(ref)
Done
2009-06-29
Release Prince 7.0 beta 1.
Done
2009-07-02
Add --insecure option to disable checking SSL certificates (already exists as
undocumented option --ssl-blindly-trust-server).
(ref)
Done
2009-07-08
Fix performance regression affecting multi-column layouts inside positioned
blocks and inline blocks.
(ref)
Done
2009-07-14
Fix bug affecting text-align on narrow lines.
(ref)
Done
2009-07-14
Assume character script is Latin if it would otherwise be "Common", eg. for
digits 0-9. This is necessary to correctly apply OpenType substitution
features.
Done
2009-07-18
Support the name attribute on HTML anchors even when it differs from the id
attribute.
Done
2009-07-19
Support fallback colors using in SVG paint specifications, eg. for the fill
property.
(ref)
Done
2009-07-20
Extend font-variant prince-opentype() value to support numbered
alternates.
Done
2009-07-22
Fix bug affecting system fonts with multiple variant faces on MacOS X, like
Hoefler Text.
Done
2009-07-22
Support the shorthand "font" property in SVG, and the font-variant and
font-stretch properties.
(ref)
Done
2009-07-22
Rename --ssl-ca-cert to --ssl-cacert and add --ssl-capath option for
compatibility with curl.
(ref)
Done
2009-08-04
Support chaining contextual OpenType substitutions required for complex
scripts.
Done
2009-08-05
Fix bug affecting OpenType substitutions with multiple replacement
glyphs.
Done
2009-08-12
Support chaining contextual OpenType positioning required for complex
scripts.
Done
2009-08-12
Fix bug affecting the hyphenation of the last word in a paragraph containing a
float.
(ref)
Done
2009-08-14
Fix bug affecting the width of shrink-to-fit boxes (eg. inline blocks,
table cells and floats) containing multiple columns.
(ref)
Done
2009-08-19
Use the PostScript name as the BaseFont name for embedded OpenType CFF fonts.
(ref)
Done
2009-08-20
Fix bug where the SVG fill-opacity property was not inherited.
(ref)
Done
2009-08-20
Fix bug where the HTML align attribute on <tr> elements does not affect
<th> elements.
(ref)
Done
2009-08-29
Add hyphenation dictionaries for more languages: pt.
Done
2009-08-30
Improve performance for long documents using fonts with OpenType layout
features.
(ref)
Done
2009-09-08
Support the arabic-indic style for counters and lists.
Done
2009-09-15
Fix bug where internal links to documents with /../ or /./ in the path name
are not resolved correctly.
(ref)
Done
2009-09-21
Fix bug affecting footnote counters in right-to-left text.
(ref)
Done
2009-09-21
Fix bug where float inside/outside doesn't work correctly in paragraphs that
span page breaks.
(ref)
Done
2009-09-23
For Content MathML, don't print the base on <cn> elements if it is
decimal.
(ref)
Done
2009-09-28
Fix bug causing Prince to hang indefinitely on some justified paragraphs.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2009-10-01
Support embedding OpenType CFF fonts without requiring PDF 1.6.
(ref)
Done
2009-10-12
Put back support for the hyphenate-lines property.
(ref)
Done
2009-10-13
Build a Prince package for 64-bit Linux.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2009-10-21
Release Prince 7.0.
Done
2009-10-21
Treat right-to-left and left-to-right bidi marks as non-printing
characters.
(ref)
Done
2009-10-16
Improve handling of symbolic fonts with no Unicode charmap, such as Wingdings
and barcode fonts.
(ref)
Done
2009-10-22
Fix bug affecting unquoted font-family names that include numbers.
(ref)
Done
2009-10-22
Add prince-pdf-open-action property to specify actions such as printing that
should take place automatically when the PDF file is opened.
(ref)
Done
2009-10-23
Change prince-pdf-link-type to apply to bookmark links as well as normal
links.
Done
2009-10-23
Ignore invalid intrinsic resolutions in JPEG images.
Done
2009-10-25
Fix bug affecting collapsing borders for footers on tables that span page
breaks.
Done
2009-10-26
Fix bug affecting line-breaking of string-set values used in flowed blocks.
(ref)
Done
2009-10-27
Add prince-base-url() value to content property for accessing document
URL.
Done
2009-10-29
Fix bug affecting some OpenType chaining contextual substitutions.
Done
2009-10-30
Fix bug where hyphenation can prevent ligature formation.
(ref)
Done
2009-11-02
Fix bug where margins can collapse through blocks with "overflow:
hidden".
Done
2009-11-02
Support OpenType positioning rules with vertical placement.
Done
2009-11-05
Fix bug where non-embedded fonts can still be subset.
(ref)
Done
2009-11-09
Fix bug where punctuation interferes with kerning and other OpenType
features.
(ref)
Done
2009-11-10
Fix bug where words containing apostrophes will not be hyphenated.
Done
2009-11-10
Fix bug affecting Fontconfig on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
(ref)
Done
2009-11-11
Support grayscale TIFF and PNG images without expanding them to RGB.
(ref)
Done
2009-11-12
Support OpenType extension lookups needed for kerning with the Arno Pro font.
(ref)
Done
2009-11-12
Support the OpenType GDEF table, needed for some Arabic and Indic fonts.
Done
2009-11-19
Fix bug affecting preformatted whitespace between spans in HTML documents.
(ref)
Done
2009-12-17
Support the WOFF font
file format.
Done
2009-12-22
Support multiple x/y/dx/dy and rotate values on text elements in SVG.
(ref)
Done
2009-12-30
Add a new --fileroot option for specifying the root directory used to resolve
absolute filenames.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2010-01-02
Support bidirectional text layout in SVG.
Done
2010-01-03
Support the letter-spacing and word-spacing properties in SVG.
(ref)
Done
2010-01-04
Fix bug affecting style sheets beginning with a UTF-8 BOM immediately followed
by an identifier.
(ref)
Done
2010-01-05
Support Unicode characters up to U+30000.
Done
2010-01-05
Add new secret command-line option --no-artificial-fonts to disable
synthesised bold and italic fonts.
(ref)
Done
2010-01-07
Support internal links in documents with multiple base URLs.
(ref)
Done
2010-01-08
Support table-baseline property needed for
MathML for CSS.
Done
2010-01-10
Support the border-break property.
(ref)
Done
2010-01-11
Support the border-clip property for specifying the length of the top border
on the @footnotes area.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2010-01-11
Support commonly used HTML5 elements, such as section.
(ref)
Done
2010-02-03
Release Prince 7.1.
Done
2010-05-05
Calculate the baseline of MathML chunks in order to vertically align them to
the baseline of the surrounding block.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2010-03-03
Fix bug affecting table cells that span rows and break across multiple pages.
(ref)
Done
2010-04-05
Fix bug where space before commas in CSS selectors will result in rules being
ignored.
(ref)
Done
2010-04-26
Handle misidentified images returned over HTTP with incorrect MIME types.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2010-04-27
Fix bug affecting positioned blocks inside justified paragraphs.
(ref)
Done
2010-04-28
Improve line-breaking for Chinese text.
Done
2010-04-29
Add --http-timeout option to avoid waiting indefinitely for slow servers.
(ref)
Done
2010-05-03
Support Chinese and Japanese counter styles for list numbering.
(ref)
Done
2010-05-23
Support Persian counter styles for list numbering.
(ref)
Done
2010-05-23
Fix bug where the type attribute was incorrectly affecting the list-style-type
for non-XHTML elements.
(ref)
Done
2010-05-23
Remove max-width rule for img elements in the default HTML style sheets.
(ref)
Done
2010-05-25
Change default value of prince-image-resolution property to "normal".
Done
2010-06-03
Support the <style> element in SVG.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2010-06-13
Fix bug affecting non-break space characters in SVG.
(ref)
Done
2010-06-15
Support scientific/exponential notation for coordinates in SVG.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2010-06-15
Support the <switch> element in SVG.
Done
2010-06-16
Fix bug affecting empty inline tables (and <select> elements).
Done
2010-07-21
Fix bug where counter scopes were incorrectly extended outside of parent elements.
(ref)
Done
2010-07-24
Add default style sheet rule to hide HTML input elements with
type="hidden".
Done
2010-07-27
Fix bug where the width property has no effect on page margin boxes.
(ref)
Done
2010-08-03
Support XHTML style and link elements that occur in the document body.
Done
2010-08-11
Respect the xml:base attribute for XHTML link and style elements.
(ref)
Done
2010-08-11
Support JavaScript in HTML script elements when the --javascript option is
enabled.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2010-08-12
Add a --script command-line argument for running user JavaScript files.
Done
2010-08-12
Support PDF attachments by adding a new --attach=FILE option and
"show-attachments" value for the prince-pdf-page-mode property.
(ref)
Done
2010-08-15
Support device-cmyk() as alias for cmyk() color function.
Done
2010-08-25
Support Unicode characters beyond U+30000.
(ref)
Done
2010-09-22
Add :nth() page selector.
(ref)
Done
2010-10-04
Remove "line-height: none" from HTML sub/sup elements for browser
compatibility.
Done
2010-10-19
Fix bug leading to gpos warnings and introducing unnecessary kerning with
certain fonts.
(ref)
Done
2010-10-30
Support the JavaScript Document Object Model (DOM).
Done
2010-11-16
Support JavaScript regular expressions.
Done
2010-11-16
Fix bug where @charset rules would block @import rules.
Done
2010-12-01
Improve performance for fonts with many OpenType glyph substitution rules,
such as the SIL Charis font.
Done
2010-12-18
Fix bug where cmyk() and rgba() background colors were not being applied to
table rows and row groups.
Done
2010-12-21
Fix bug where text decoration does not work properly with text-indent.
(ref)
Done
2011-02-21
Replace the --log-stats command-line option with a JavaScript API.
Done
2011-02-22
Update the default hyphenation dictionaries.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-03-02
Fix bug where the column-break-before and column-break-after properties only
work on direct children of an element with multi-column layout.
(ref)
Done
2011-03-03
Allow the column properties to apply to table cells and list items.
Done
2011-03-03
Fix bug where forced page breaks in list items would cause the marker to be
repeated.
Done
2011-03-03
Release Prince 8.0 beta 1.
Done
2011-03-20
Fix bug where column floats in nested multi-column layouts go to the outer
column, not the inner column.
(ref)
Done
2011-03-20
Fix bug affecting "float: prince-column-top-if-necessary" on elements that are
not inside columns.
(ref)
Done
2011-03-20
Fix bug affecting column floats and footnotes inside other floats, inline and
absolutely positioned blocks, and table cells.
(ref)
Done
2011-03-23
Fix bug affecting empty leaders.
(ref)
Done
2011-03-23
Be more aggressive when packing page floats on pages with balanced columns.
(ref)
Done
2011-03-24
Change page vertical margin percentages to be resolved relative to page
height, not width.
Done
2011-03-28
Expand leaders before performing text alignment.
(ref)
Done
2011-03-28
Support the prince-link property on pseudo-elements.
Done
2011-04-20
Provide a mechanism to invoke JavaScript from CSS generated content.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2011-05-04
Support PDF bookmarks on pseudo-elements.
Done
2011-05-10
Fix bug affecting bookmarks in repeating table headers and footers.
(ref)
Done
2011-05-10
Reduce memory usage for documents containing many elements.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-05-28
Add prince-pdf-page-layout property to control initial page layout in PDF
viewer.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-05-28
Ensure location.href begins with "file://" for local file URLs as jQuery
requires this.
Done
2011-06-02
Support inset/outset/ridge/groove/double styles for column rules.
Done
2011-06-02
Fix bug affecting OpenType positioning in the SIL Charis font.
Done
2011-06-06
Add new property, prince-pdf-page-label, to specify PDF page labels.
Done
2011-06-16
Support Unicode escapes in JavaScript strings.
Done
2011-06-22
Enable JavaScript when using Prince Windows GUI.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-06-24
Release Prince 8.0.
Done
2011-09-12
Fix bug affecting page breaking of table rows with specified height.
(ref)
Done
2011-07-21
Support NUL characters in JavaScript strings.
(ref)
Done
2011-07-28
Allow line-breaking in prince-script() generated content.
Done
2011-08-02
Fix bug causing abort due to big integer values in JavaScript.
Done
2011-08-05
Ignore bogus <!-- comments in JavaScript.
Done
2011-08-06
Support deprecated octal escape codes in JavaScript.
Done
2011-08-07
Support URI encode/decode functions in JavaScript.
Done
2011-08-15
Support zero-width joiner character in Arabic text.
(ref)
Done
2011-08-17
Create Prince package for FreeBSD 8.2.
Done
2011-08-18
Support "column-span: all".
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2011-08-18
Use absolute path for file:// URLs in location.href property.
Done
2011-08-21
Support the textContent property in the JavaScript DOM.
(ref)
Done
2011-08-24
Support inter-character justification for CJK text with new
prince-text-justify property.
(ref)
Done
2011-08-29
Support CSS3 Transforms.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2011-08-29
Fix bug where background images are not appearing on tables.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-09-17
Change "page-break-after: left | right" to leave a blank page if necessary at
the end of the document, to guarantee an even page count.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-09-22
Support DOM style property on HTML elements.
(ref)
Done
2011-09-23
Add a JavaScript API for setting PDF output options.
Done
2011-10-04
Improve scaling of SVG when the viewport height is a percentage.
(ref)
Done
2011-10-07
Support "display: none" on SVG elements.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-10-08
Allow overflowing content to continue across multiple pages.
Done
2011-10-10
Support MIME type parameter values in quotes, eg. charset="UTF-8".
Done
2011-10-12
Avoid using CID font encoding in PDF files unless absolutely necessary.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-10-12
Fix bug affecting table cells that span multiple columns.
(ref)
Done
2011-10-20
Create RPM for CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-11-14
Support the SVG clipPath element and clip-path / clip-rule CSS properties.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2011-11-18
Fix bug affecting ::first-letter pseudo-element and nested spans.
(ref)
Done
2011-12-12
Fix bug affecting prince-column-footnote outside of multi-column layouts.
(ref)
Done
2011-12-13
Support new command-line argument -l / --input-list for specifying multiple
input files in another file instead of directly on the command-line.
(ref)
Done
2011-12-13
Extend prince-linebreak-magic property to apply to \ characters.
Done
2011-12-13
Fix bug affecting Unicode filenames and command-line arguments on Windows.
Done
2011-12-20
Support OpenType fonts with PostScript outlines (OTF/CFF fonts) when installed
as system fonts on Windows.
(ref)
Done
2011-12-20
Support the ::first-line pseudo-element.
Done
2012-01-16
Rename prince-jpeg-quality property to prince-image-magic and add
snap-to-integer-coords value.
(ref)
Done
2012-01-21
Change JavaScript Number.toString method to comply with spec.
(ref)
Done
2012-01-22
Fix curl HTTP referer issue causing transient 400 errors for some HTTP requests.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2012-01-30
Fix bug where JavaScript mod operator returns undefined for non-integer
values.
Done
2012-02-19
Fix issue affecting the hyphenation of capitalised and uppercase words.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2012-02-21
Add Math.seedRandom function for seeding the JavaScript random number generator.
(ref)
Done
2012-02-21
Expose JavaScript DOM prototype objects, eg. Node, Element, Attribute, etc.
Done
2012-02-22
Change JavaScript DOM method getElementsByTagName to return a live NodeList object.
Done
2012-03-06
Support JavaScript DOM method getElementsByClassName.
Done
2012-03-06
Support JavaScript DOM properties img.src, a.href, and a.name.
Done
2012-03-06
Support evaluating <script> elements when they are added to the DOM.
Done
2012-03-12
Fix bug affecting inline-blocks longer than a page preceded by a float.
Done
2012-03-16
Fix bug affecting floats and hanging text indents.
Done
2012-03-16
Update SSL certificate authority file.
Done
2012-03-31
Support "visibility: hidden" on SVG elements.
(ref)
Done
2012-04-09
Fix JavaScript bug where "typeof foo" could return undefined instead of
"undefined".
Done
2012-04-17
Check the Panose proportion value in the OS/2 table when computing
font-stretch for TrueType/OpenType fonts.
(ref)
Done
2012-04-19
Support JavaScript DOM properties input.value and window.location.hash.
Done
2012-04-26
Support { as a literal pattern character in JavaScript regular expressions if
it does not form the beginning of a quantifier.
Done
2012-04-29
Support the innerHTML property in the JavaScript DOM.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2012-04-29
Support named spot colors (separation colors) with new @prince-color CSS rule.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2012-05-05
Don't parse fragment identifiers (eg. #foo) in relative URLs used on the
command-line, treat them as filenames instead.
(ref)
Done
2012-05-11
Fix bug where the background image for the footnotes area would be swapped
with the background image for the page float bottom area.
Done
2012-05-28
Experimental support for HTML5 with "-i html5" on command-line.
Done
2012-06-04
Release Prince 8.1.
Done
2012-06-28
Fix bug where column-span does not work correctly on tables.
(ref)
Done
2012-07-02
Fix bug where column-span on nested elements eats preceding content.
(ref)
Done
2012-07-02
Fix bug affecting SVG clipPath elements containing <use> elements.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2012-07-12
Fix bug where apostrophe must be escaped in relative HTTP URLs.
(ref)
Done
2012-07-24
Release Prince 8.1 rev 2.
Done
2012-07-30
Fix bug where text-transform does not apply to ::first-letter and
::first-line.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2012-07-30
Fix issues affecting links to content on landscape pages.
(ref)
Done
2012-08-01
Fix bug where column-span within an element can affect target-counter and
string-set values for that element.
(ref)
Done
2012-08-03
Support JavaScript DOM property window.location.hash.
Done
2012-08-14
Allow slash escaping underscore in JavaScript regular expressions.
Done
2012-08-14
Fix bug affecting URL encoding of filenames that breaks internal document
links.
(ref)
Done
2012-08-16
Update Prince PHP wrapper to add convert_file_to_passthru method, support for
enabling JavaScript, and disabling font subsetting.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2012-08-17
Ensure DEB packages have Installed-Size field to avoid ominous warning.
(ref)
Done
2012-08-20
Update Prince .NET wrapper to add support for enabling JavaScript, converting
multiple input documents, and disabling font subsetting.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2012-08-23
Fix bug affecting OpenType positioning for the "Cabin" font.
(ref)
Done
2012-09-01
Release Prince 8.1 rev 3.
Done
2012-09-06
Fix bug where some JavaScript comments could be misinterpreted as regular
expressions.
Done
2012-09-10
Fix bug where JavaScript parseInt function is failing if string contains
non-digit characters.
Done
2012-09-10
Change JavaScript Number.toString() method to use lowercase a-z characters
when the radix is greater than 10, for consistency with web browsers.
Done
2012-09-11
Change special HTML DOM attributes like script.src to return "" instead of null
when they are not present, for consistency with web browsers.
(ref)
Done
2012-09-11
Fix internal error triggered by large floats on small pages.
Done
2012-09-13
Fix bug on Solaris where long data URLs can cause CSS parsing to fail.
(ref)
Done
2012-09-24
Fix bug affecting CSS3 Transforms where vertical translation offsets were
inverted.
(ref)
Done
2012-09-24
Workaround issue in MacOS X Preview affecting spot colors.
(ref)
Done
2012-09-26
Fix bug where using RGBA colors can cause images to incorrect inherit the
opacity value.
Done
2012-09-26
Fix bug where the XHTML q element was using U+201D for German quotes instead
of U+201C.
(ref)
Done
2012-10-08
Fix bug where debug log messages could cause deadlocks for Prince wrappers.
(ref)
Done
2012-10-09
Support the float property on the ::first-letter pseudo-element.
(ref)
Done
2012-10-17
Fix bug affecting patterns in SVG that reference other patterns.
(ref)
Done
2012-10-18
Fix bug triggered by DOCTYPE declaration with system identifier containing
space.
(ref)
Done
2012-10-24
Release Prince 8.1 rev 4.
Done
2012-12-21
Fix bug affecting SVG markers on transformed paths.
(ref)
Done
2012-11-12
Support a default underline for fonts that recommend an underline of zero
thickness, like Hoefler Text on MacOS X.
Done
2013-01-07
Fix OpenType positioning issue causing some kerning pairs to be ignored, eg.
"..." for the Vollkorn font.
Done
2013-01-07
Avoid failing with unused_ref error if broken image cannot be loaded.
Done
2013-01-25
Fix bug where non-Base64 data URLs have all whitespace characters stripped.
(ref)
Done
2013-02-06
Fix bug causing "Error 21" in Acrobat when saving encrypted PDF files.
(ref)
Done
2013-02-15
Release Prince 8.1 rev 5.
Done
2013-03-14