Prince Documentation

Contents

• 1. Getting Started
  • Installing Prince
    • Installing Prince on Windows
    • Installing Prince on MacOS X
    • Installing Prince on Linux
      • Debian and Ubuntu
      • Redhat and CentOS
      • OpenSUSE
      • FreeBSD, Solaris and Generic Linux
    • Installing a license file
  • Your First Document
    • The lab report
    • Processing the document
    • Styling the document
  • If Something Didn't Work
    • Missing fonts
    • Fontconfig
    • Image formats
    • Shared library trouble
    • PATH issues
• 2. Formatting
  • CSS Box Model
  • Tables
    • Running table headers and footers
    • Numbering table rows
    • Automatic table layout
    • Fixed table layout
    • Separated table borders
    • Collapsing table borders
    • Cells that span columns
    • Cells that span rows
  • Lists
    • List marker position
    • List marker type
    • List marker style
  • Images
    • Images in XHTML
    • Images in DocBook
    • Images in arbitrary XML
  • Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
    • Viewbox and viewport
    • Rectangles
    • Circles
    • Ellipses
    • Lines
    • Polylines
    • Polygons
    • Paths
    • Text
    • Images
    • Links
    • Transformations
    • Style Properties
• 3. Paged Media
  • Styling pages
    • Page size
    • Page style
    • Page headers and footers
    • Generated content in headers and footers
    • Footnotes
  • Some @page selectors
    • The :first, :Nth, :left and :right page selectors
    • Named pages
  • Controlling pagination
    • Page breaks
    • Widows and orphans
  • Advanced paged media examples
    • The :blank page selector
    • Page groups
    • Page breaks and decoration
    • Printing wide content sideways
• 4. Prince Input
  • Applying Style Sheets
    • Importing Style Sheets
    • Conflicting Declarations
    • Priority Determination
  • XML Input
    • XML Input
      • Validation
      • xml:lang
      • xml:id
      • xml:base
    • XML Styling
    • XML Inclusions (XInclude)
      • Including XML files
      • Including text files
      • Fallback
  • Using JavaScript with Prince
    • Logging
    • Console access
    • Event handling
    • Document statistics
    • PDF properties
    • Unsupported DOM properties
• 5. Prince Output
  • PDF Output Options
    • PDF Compression
    • Font Embedding
    • Creating PostScript output
  • PDF Bookmarks
    • Bookmark levels
    • Bookmark labels
    • Bookmark targets
  • PDF Metadata
  • PDF Profiles
• 6. Server Integration
  • Using Prince from Java
  • Using Prince from .NET with C#
  • Using Prince from .NET with VB.NET
  • Using Prince from Python
  • Using Prince from Perl
  • Using Prince from PHP
  • Using Prince from ASP
  • Using Prince from ColdFusion
    • Using Java
    • Using ActiveX/COM
  • Using Prince from ActiveX / COM / Visual Basic
• 7. Prince Tips and Tricks
  • Generated Content
    • Page headers and footers
    • List markers
    • Footnote markers
    • Before and After pseudo-elements
    • Counters and Numbering
      • Counter reset and increment
      • Nested counters
      • Counter styles
    • Cross-references
      • Using target-counter
      • Using target-content
    • Script Functions
      • Accessing the current date and time
      • User-defined counter styles
    • Using generated content in margin boxes
    • Copying text content from the document
    • Taking elements from the document
  • Imaging and color
    • Color (RGB, CMYK, spot colors)
      • RGB
      • RGBA
      • CMYK
      • Spot colors
• 8. Fonts
  • Generic font families
  • Redefining the generic font families

Reference Guide

• A1. Command-line Reference
  • Examples
  • Specifying input and output
  • Options
    • General Options
    • Logging Options
    • Input Options
    • Network Options
    • JavaScript Options
    • CSS Options
    • PDF Output Options
    • PDF Metadata Options
    • PDF Encryption Options
    • Utility Options
• A2. CSS Selectors
  • Universal Selectors
  • Type Selectors
  • Descendant Selectors
  • Child Selectors
  • Direct Sibling Selectors
  • Indirect Sibling Selectors
  • Attribute Selectors
  • Class Selectors
  • ID Selectors
  • Link Selectors
  • Language Selectors
  • Contains Selectors
  • Root Selectors
  • Empty Selectors
  • Negated Selectors
  • Child Selectors
  • Typed Child Selectors
  • Nth Child Selectors
  • Nth Last Child Selectors
  • Nth of Type Selectors
  • Nth Last of Type Selectors
  • Pseudo-element Selectors
• A3. CSS Properties
  • background
  • background-attachment
  • background-clip
  • background-color
  • background-image
  • background-origin
  • background-position
  • background-repeat
  • background-size
  • border
  • border-bottom
  • border-bottom-color
  • border-bottom-left-radius
  • border-bottom-right-radius
  • border-bottom-style
  • border-bottom-width
  • border-clip
  • border-collapse
  • border-color
  • border-left
  • border-left-color
  • border-left-style
  • border-left-width
  • border-radius
  • border-right
  • border-right-color
  • border-right-style
  • border-right-width
  • border-spacing
  • border-style
  • border-top
  • border-top-color
  • border-top-left-radius
  • border-top-right-radius
  • border-top-style
  • border-top-width
  • border-width
  • bottom
  • box-decoration-break
  • box-sizing
  • caption-side
  • clear
  • clip
  • clip-path
  • clip-rule
  • color
  • column-break-after
  • column-break-before
  • column-count
  • column-fill
  • column-gap
  • column-rule
  • column-rule-color
  • column-rule-style
  • column-rule-width
  • column-span
  • column-width
  • columns
  • content
  • counter-increment
  • counter-reset
  • direction
  • display
  • empty-cells
  • float
  • font
  • font-family
  • font-size
  • font-stretch
  • font-style
  • font-variant
  • font-weight
  • footnote-style-position
  • height
  • hyphens
  • left
  • letter-spacing
  • line-height
  • line-stacking-strategy
  • list-style
  • list-style-image
  • list-style-position
  • list-style-type
  • margin
  • margin-bottom
  • margin-inside
  • margin-left
  • margin-outside
  • margin-right
  • margin-top
  • marks
  • max-height
  • max-width
  • min-height
  • min-width
  • opacity
  • orphans
  • overflow
  • overflow-wrap
  • padding
  • padding-bottom
  • padding-left
  • padding-right
  • padding-top
  • page
  • page-break-after
  • page-break-before
  • page-break-inside
  • position
  • prince-background-image-resolution
  • prince-bleed
  • prince-bookmark-label
  • prince-bookmark-level
  • prince-bookmark-state
  • prince-bookmark-target
  • prince-caption-page
  • prince-flow
  • prince-footnote-policy
  • prince-forced-breaks
  • prince-hyphenate-after
  • prince-hyphenate-before
  • prince-hyphenate-lines
  • prince-hyphenate-patterns
  • prince-image-magic
  • prince-image-resolution
  • prince-linebreak-magic
  • prince-link
  • prince-mark-length
  • prince-mark-offset
  • prince-page-group
  • prince-pdf-destination
  • prince-pdf-link-type
  • prince-pdf-open-action
  • prince-pdf-output-intent
  • prince-pdf-page-label
  • prince-pdf-page-layout
  • prince-pdf-page-mode
  • prince-pdf-paper-tray
  • prince-pdf-print-scaling
  • prince-pdf-profile
  • prince-pdf-script
  • prince-rotate-body
  • prince-shrink-to-fit
  • prince-text-justify
  • prince-text-replace
  • prince-trim
  • prince-wrap-inside
  • right
  • size
  • string-set
  • table-baseline
  • table-column-span
  • table-layout
  • table-row-span
  • text-align
  • text-align-last
  • text-decoration
  • text-indent
  • text-line-through
  • text-line-through-color
  • text-line-through-style
  • text-overflow
  • text-overline
  • text-overline-color
  • text-overline-style
  • text-transform
  • text-underline
  • text-underline-color
  • text-underline-style
  • top
  • transform
  • transform-origin
  • unicode-bidi
  • vertical-align
  • visibility
  • white-space
  • widows
  • width
  • word-break
  • word-spacing
  • writing-mode
  • z-index
• A4. Appendix
  • Unsupported features in CSS 2.1
  • Page Size Keywords
  • Character Entities
    • Accented Letters
    • Symbols
    • Quotes
    • Accents
    • Miscellaneous
• A5. Acknowledgements

Other versions

Documentation for other versions of Prince is also available.