71 but Prince is sooo easy

I’m involved in a project that requires a “clean” print option, but none of the developers have specific expertise in printing (nicely) from XHTML. Frankly, we have been dreading the day when we would have to buckle down an learn an unfamiliar print technology. After stumbling on this thread I picked up the free Prince demo today. Within an hour, I was outputting reasonably complex pdf layouts with tables borders, backgrounds and images (oooooooh… ahhhhhhh…) and without touching the original content. The CSS2 implementation is refreshingly solid (this the week that IE7 and FF2 were released). Now, my team is genuinely excited about printing. Offset press publishing might be a stretch, but Prince proves that more modest goals are achievable with a fraction of the effort.

posted at 04:48 am on October 25, 2006 by Adam Fingret

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