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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

Fonts

Generic font families

Prince maps the CSS generic font families to the Microsoft Core Fonts as shown in the table below. The Microsoft Core Fonts are pre-installed on Windows and MacOS X systems but not on Linux systems. To use them on Linux you must install the msttcorefonts package, which is available for most Linux distributions.

Generic family Actual font
serif Times New Roman
sans-serif Arial
monospace Courier New
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