Prince is a proprietary software program that converts XML and HTML documents into PDF files by applying Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Prince is developed by YesLogic, a small Melbourne-based company.
History and development
In April 2003, Prince 1.0 was released, with basic support for XHTML, CSS, SVG and arbitrary XML. This first version was a command-line program that supported Windows and Linux; there was no graphical user interface for Windows yet. In subsequent releases of Prince the CSS support was steadily extended until it was comparable with web browsers such as Opera and Mozilla Firefox. As of January 2007, Prince surpasses common web browsers in support for paged media, CSS selectors and generated content, including advanced facilities such as language-dependent hyphenation dictionaries.[1] In December 2005, Prince 5.1 passed the Acid2 test from the Web Standards Project. It was the third user agent to pass the test, after the Safari and Konqueror web browsers. The latest release of Prince is Prince 6.0, released in May 2007. Prince was developed using the Mercury functional logic programming language.
References
- From XML to paper with Prince — NewsForge, November 29, 2006
- Prince 5.1 Passes Acid2 — Web Standards Project announcement, December 10, 2005
- Steward, Sid. PDF Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools. O'Reilly. ISBN 0-596-00655-1.
- Fitzgerald, Michael. XML Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools. O'Reilly. ISBN 0-596-00711-6.
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| List of layout engines | Trident · Presto · Gecko · Tasman · WebCore · KHTML · iCab · Prince · GtkHTML · Gzilla · Boxely · Tkhtml · Robin |
| Comparison of layout engines | HTML · XML · XHTML · Graphics · CSS · DOM · HTML 5 · ECMAScript · SVG |
