Prince

Prince transforms HTML documents into PDF files by applying CSS styling, enabling precise control over layout, typography, and pagination. It supports a range of web standards—including HTML, XHTML, XML, SVG, and CSS—as well as JavaScript, allowing dynamic content and interactive elements such as footnotes, cross‑references, and hyperlinks to be rendered accurately in the final PDF. The tool also handles image formats like JPEG, PNG, GIF, and TIFF, and provides features such as bookmarks, metadata, encryption, and document security.

The software is aimed at developers and publishers who need to generate printable or archival PDFs from web‑based content, particularly when exact visual fidelity and typographic quality are required. It offers integration points for PHP, Ruby on Rails, Java, .NET, and ActiveX/COM, making it usable within various server‑side environments and workflows. Font handling includes OpenType, TrueType, and CFF support with subsetting, kerning, ligatures, and Unicode coverage for many language scripts.

Prince is a mature, stable product for macOS, positioned for e‑publishing, automated report generation, and any scenario where HTML‑driven design must be reproduced as a high‑quality PDF.